Space News & Blog Articles

Hubble's science instruments went into a protective safe mode on Monday (Oct. 25) after suffering an issue with internal spacecraft communications.

Read on for a brief history of UFO sightings, potential explanations for them, and cultural attitudes toward the phenomenon.

Players of "Star Trek Online" are facing down the game's first Halloween event, which is a battle for lives, souls and possibly the universe itself.

Just in time for Halloween, the long-running Hubble Space Telescope has captured a creepy image of a star surrounded by soot.

A dead space telescope's data reveals a gas cloud that looks like the iconic sci-fi monster Godzilla.

A new podcast argues the 1938 Martian invasion story foreshadowed the problems of media creation today.

Earth impact craters are unique tourist destinations. Here are some striking craters you can visit in person or from the comfort of your home with Google Earth.

A Blue Moon is not typically blue, but it can be.

Four astronauts are headed to the International Space Station (ISS) this Halloween (Oct. 31), where they'll spend six months conducting more than 200 different research investigations.

NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission is the first-ever space mission designed to test planetary defense technologies in asteroid deflection.

Why the electromagnetic spectrum, and the electromagnetic radiation it describes, is so interesting and useful for scientists and everyday life.

A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday (Oct. 28) in the strongest storm yet of our star's current weather cycle.

NASA has a plan that includes telescope partnerships and a brand-new spacecraft mission launching this year.

Project Cambria is the new VR headset revealed at Facebook Connect, and it's coming next year.

As space travel for recreational purposes is becoming a very real possibility, there could come a time when we are travelling to other planets for holidays, or perhaps even to live.

Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the "telescope that ate astronomy."

Astronomy is the study of the sun, moon, stars, planets and other objects and phenomena in space. It has a long, rich history.

The weird motions of planet Earth and its sun will be a fun sight for astronauts at the south pole of the moon, a NASA video shows.

The coldest place in the universe is a teeth-chattering –459.67 degrees Fahrenheit: over three times icier than the chilliest location on Earth.

Venus is the first planet you'll spot these days — maybe even before sunset, if you know where to look in the south-southwest sky.

Research in space could help humanity to tackle our big plastic problem here on Earth.