Space News & Blog Articles

The first full-size prototype of SpaceX's Starship vehicle should be ready to launch on an orbital test flight "in a few weeks," company founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter on Saturday (Aug. 14).

A tiny cubesat called AuroraSat-1 will launch atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster in the fourth quarter of this year to demonstrate de-orbiting tech for small spacecraft.

By studying rocks on Earth, researchers suggest that their Martian counterparts could also have water trapped within them.

Beloved "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols is caught in the middle of a conservatorship battle as she fights her own battle with dementia.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th Red Planet flight on Monday (Aug. 16), during which the little chopper served as eyes in the sky for its larger companion, the Perseverance rover.

China’s meteoric rise in space science and exploration—along with its new partnership with Russia—is spurring U.S. experts to reconsider a long-standing prohibition on bilateral collaborations

The partial breakup of China's Yunhai 1-02 military satellite on March 18 is no longer mysterious.

The particles used were spooky virtual particles, conjured from a disturbance between two electromagnetic fields.

Satellite imagery captured the devastating damage left behind from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Saturday (Aug. 14).

Thousands of people congregated on the tarmac at Kabul's international airport amid mass evacuations

With 11 crewmembers, two SpaceX Crew Dragon missions and a Russian module mishap, it's been a busy mission! See photos of the Expedition 65 crew in action.

Multiple exploding stars may have seeded the solar system with material required to form planets.

Blue Origin is now suing NASA in its latest attempt to push back against the agency's decision to award SpaceX its moon lander contract.

Scientists used Saturn's famous rings as a seismograph to study processes in the planet's interior. The researchers found its core is like a soup consisting of rocks, ices and metallic fluids.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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