Space News & Blog Articles

In this week's Night Sky column, we provide a potpourri of factoids concerning some of the more prominent objects appearing in the summertime sky.

China launched four new communications satellites this week in two launches from different launch sites, within hours.

For centuries, sailors have been reporting strange encounters like this one.

The latest installment in the Halo series will be released on Dec. 8

Two cosmonauts completed the first in a series of spacewalks needed to outfit a newly-added Russian module to the International Space Station.

SpaceX and the Inspiration4 team completed the flight readiness reviews on Sept. 2.

The four astronauts poised to launch on first-ever all-civilian SpaceX mission this month will have one heck of a view once they reach orbit.

The epic storm that swept across the eastern United States this week hit New Jersey so hard that satellites saw the damage from space.

The first teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's new sci-fi film "Moonfall" has arrived.

A Chinese science proposal plans to study how to get a giant spacecraft into space.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson's trip to the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston this week brought back memories of his first visit to the home of U.S. human spaceflight more than 35 years ago.

The Nikon Z6 is part of Nikon’s mirrorless suite of cameras, and when you combine price with performance, it’s a real star in the night sky photography world.

NASA has started testing a future air taxi that might soon be flying cargo and passengers in busy cities, helping them to ease annoying traffic jams.

Just outside the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years from the Earth, lies the Small Magellanic Cloud. Even if it’s a humble shadow of the Milky Way, it’s a galaxy in its own right. And the Small Magellanic Cloud fascinates astronomers, since it’s a hotbed of star formation.

Astronomers may have captured the best view yet of matter colliding with the surface of a young star, findings that may shed light on what the sun looked like in its youth.

The largest piece of Martian rock on Earth, weighing around 32 pounds, has gone on display for the first time, at a museum in Maine.

Firefly Aerospace suffered a catastrophic failure during the first-ever launch of its Alpha rocket on Sept 2, 2021.

Perseverance has likely snagged its first-ever Red Planet sample, socking away a drilled-out core of a rock dubbed "Rochette."

SpaceX's newest drone ship, "A Shortfall of Gravitas" (ASOG) arrived in port Tuesday (Aug. 31) with its first catch secured to its deck.

Virgin Orbit has passed an FAA environmental review for future rocket launches from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.

Home movies from astronauts offer a glimpse inside Russia's new Nauka space station module.