Space News & Blog Articles

Astronomers may have for the first time detected and measured the mass of an isolated stellar-mass black hole, a new study finds.

A stunning new video from SpaceX captures what it's like to watch a rocket launch and then witness the booster return to Earth, all from mid-air.

IDW Publishing rolls out a turbulent new "Transformers: War's End" miniseries in February.

Dynamite Entertainment is releasing a new “John Carter of Mars” comic book title in spring 2022.

A new U.S. Space Force video "demands action" on space debris and asks the private sector for their help cleaning up the growing space mess.

Titan Books delivers another deluxe volume of classic “Flash Gordon” newspaper strips on February 15

Scientists detected two ancient ranges of 'supermountains' that criss-crossed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago — and may have jump-started animal evolution.

It's been a whirlwind 38 days in space for the James Webb Space Telescope, but its chief scientist says the mission is well on track to uncover the universe soon.

Storms in the U.S. and Uruguay set new records for longest lightning bolt and longest-duration lightning flash.

Astra planned to launch the ELaNa 41 mission for NASA today (Feb. 5) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station but was thwarted by an issue at the launch range.

What would it take to dislodge the moon from its orbit and send it on a collision course with Earth?

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.