Space News & Blog Articles

Astra will launch its first-ever mission from the Lower 48 on Saturday (Feb. 5), and you can watch the action live.

You can blame dust in the wind.

New research suggests that stellar radiation may commonly strip away the atmospheric outer layers of exoplanets slightly smaller than Neptune, transforming them into super-Earths.

The International Space Station will plunge into the sea in January 2031, NASA has announced.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new view of a stellar nursery illuminated by the bright blue light of young stars.

The 2022 Winter Olympics are here and Maxar Technologies has released satellite images of many of the venues in China as seen from space.

Jaffa, Kree! It's time for someone else to pick up the baton...and soon

The parachute system on SpaceX's Dragon capsule hasn't behaved exactly as expected recently, and NASA and SpaceX want to know why.

The end of the International Space Station is inevitable — and complicated.

Hollywood has finally taken inspiration from the decade-ago move of a NASA space shuttle through the streets of Los Angeles and it only took the moon falling out of the sky for it to happen.

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to slam into the moon in exactly one month.

The flight, called Ax-1, is made up of one professional astronaut and three paying customers.

NASA is preparing for the day its astronauts explore the south pole of the moon by heading underwater with the lights out.

NASA and SpaceX will hold announce an update to the agency's next astronaut launch from Florida today (Feb. 4) and you can follow it live online.

Some people around the world believe our planet is flat. Here's the (surprising) truth about debating them.

The distance to Mars from Earth constantly changes as they orbit the sun. The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles (225 million km).

Here's how to stay up to date on all of NASA's content for Black History month.

Frequent meteor collisions occurred on the Red Planet for 30 million more years than thought, a new study suggests.

The man who gave us mutant neutrinos that melt the Earth's core hopes his movies will raise awareness over real dangers to our planet.

A streak of purple "lightning" sprawls across the cosmos in a gorgeous new image from NASA.

China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter is once again delivering stunning imagery, with a new video released to celebrate the lunar New Year.