Space News & Blog Articles

A citizen scientist's lucky discovery of an eccentric brown dwarf illustrates the tantalizing borderline between stars and planets.

Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its first-ever orbital mission this evening (Sept. 2), and you can watch the action live.

The flight could have ended very badly.

The Taurid meteor shower is relatively sparse, but may display impressive fireballs.

The leak was confirmed by the game's creative director during Gamescom last week.

The Caldor Fire, one of the largest in California's history, has been blazing since Aug. 14, 2021.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission hopes to shed light on many of the unexplored mysteries of Mercury, the least explored planet of the inner solar system.

NASA's Perseverance rover is on track to collect its first-ever Mars sample in the next few days.

The European Sentinel 2 satellite has flown over Mount Etna just as the volcano, the most active in Europe, erupted for the 50th time this year on Sunday (Aug 29).

NASA personnel at the agency's manufacturing facility in Louisiana are continuing to evaluate damage caused by Hurricane Ida, which made landfall on Sunday (Aug. 29).

Earth moves around the sun and across the universe on its axis and at an incredible rate.

A rocket-shaped stack of cheese and crackers could now launch your kid on a real-life space adventure.

How rare is our solar system? In the 30 years or so since planets were first discovered orbiting stars other than our sun, we have found that planetary systems are common in the galaxy.

NASA engineers are building a next-generation supersonic plane that will produce a barely audible thump instead of the infamous boom that can rattle furniture and break glass.

The private astronauts of Inspiration4 will be helping to expand our understanding of how space affects the human body on their mission around Earth.

We're getting a bird's-eye view of some of the damage Ida has wrought, thanks to before-and-after photos snapped by Maxar Technologies' WorldView-2 satellite.

Learn all about the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown six mystery missions to date.

Powerful eyes in the sky watched the menacing maelstrom Ida churn through the southern United States, even at night.

Fans may have had limited access to U.S. Open tennis tournaments over the last year and a half, but at least they can view it from space.

By entangling the motion and quantum properties of a beryllium crystal, scientists have achieved unprecedented precision for measuring electromagnetic waves.

The launch of NASA's Earth-observing Landsat 9 satellite will be delayed a week due to a shortage of liquid nitrogen.