Space News & Blog Articles

Learn all about the northern lights, including the science behind their colors, the display's ancient history and how to see the phenomenon.

Satellite imagery reveals that Mount Etna has gotten 100 feet taller in the past six months.

Our cosmic block is full of neighbors that we know very little about, but scientists have come up with creative ways to get a peak at the layers of one particular type of planet.

New research provides more details of the dinosaurs’ demise and the composition of the asteroid belt.

Maxar satellite photos show the devastation of Greenville, California from the Dixie wildfire in August 2021.

Arianespace will launch a new Earth observation satellite for Airbus today (Aug. 15), along with four other tiny satellites and you can watch the liftoff live online.

Walt Disney World Resort has set mid-September for the highly-anticipated and long-awaited opening of Space 220.

Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable

Smoke from massive wildfires in Russia's eastern Siberia region has reached the geographic North Pole "for the first time in recorded history," according to NASA.

In just one month, SpaceX will make history with Inspiration4 — the world's first all-civilian spaceflight — the mission's crew couldn't be more excited.

The Orionid meteor shower is peaks in the early morning of Tuesday, Oct. 22, but a bright moon will disrupt viewing until shortly before dawn.

Two aircrafts flying over Canada reported a "bright green UFO" that disappeared into the clouds on July 30.

July 2021 was the single hottest month in history, according to a new NOAA report.

NASA said the accusations against Expedition 56 flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor are baseless.

A Malaysian satellite will soon fall from space to burn up in Earth's atmosphere following a mysterious "anomaly" that struck it down in orbit.

The first person to walk on the moon declined the honor when asked, but a group of NASA officials and members of Congress presided over a ceremony in Ohio to do just that.

A 7-Eleven Slurpee has come closer to leaving the planet than any convenience store-dispensed drink has done before.

The first trailer and a sneak peek at "Blade Runner: Black Lotus" are here and they're packed with sci-fi awesomeness.

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft won't be flying to the International Space Station for NASA this month after all.

Sun-exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter has captured this video of a glowing crescent of Venus as it flew past the planet during a gravity-assist flyby on Monday (Aug 9).

The distance between Earth and the sun is 1 astronomical unit. How far is that?