Space News & Blog Articles

Here's everything you need to know about Blue Origin's launch of Laura Shepard Churchley and her crew on the New Shepard spacecraft on Dec. 11, 2021.

The asteroid impact that wiped out most dinosaurs may have taken place during the Northern Hemisphere's spring or early summer, according to new research on the infamous mass extinction.

Something strange is happening to skywatchers' most anticipated comet of the year.

Our Doctor Who streaming guide is here to guide you through a journey across time and space.

IXPE will probe the physics behind some of the universe's most dynamic objects: black holes and neutron stars.

China's Shenzhou 13 astronauts are all set to present a science lesson live from the orbiting Chinese space station on Thursday, Dec. 9.

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 Dec. 9 GMT).

The weirdly cubic 'mystery hut' is far from the only intriguing object Yutu 2 has seen on the moon's little-explored far side.

The moon has already visited Venus and Saturn in the night sky over the past few days, and tonight (Dec. 8) Earth's natural satellite will sidle up next to Jupiter.

SpaceX will launch a new space observatory for NASA overnight and you can watch the action live online.

Today (Dec. 8), National Geographic's new series "Welcome to Earth" drops on Disney Plus, showcasing Academy Award-nominated actor Will Smith in his latest role: explorer.

The Book of Boba Fett hits Disney Plus on December 29, but you'll have to wait until next year for these tie-in Black Series figures.

An exoplanet 11 times more massive than Jupiter resides in b Centauri, a young binary star system about 325 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.

We tested out the Canon RF 24-240mm f4-6.3 lens for this hands-on review.

Windy conditions pushed off the third crewed launch of the New Shepard system.

The Advanced Hybrid Backpack from professional outfit Manfrotto looks to kill three birds with one stone. How does it stack up against the competition?

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, video producer Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin docked with the orbiting lab early Wednesday (Dec. 8).

Explore the eight (or nine) planets of the solar system from the closest to the sun to the furthest, as well as the controversial planet nine.

Here's our guide to the best cities for flying a drone, which highlights the top places to travel if you're an aerial photographer.

The world could end not with a bang, but with a quantum vacuum decay of the ground state of the universe to its true minimum.

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites is scheduled to lift off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 6:45 p.m. EST (2345 GMT). Watch it live here.