Space News & Blog Articles

The launch helped strengthen Europe's ambitions in climate monitoring, disaster response and maritime security.

This quiz explores the world's most powerful telescopes and observatories — on Earth and beyond.

We put the Kenko VC Smart Cellarto 10x30 WP through their paces to find out if these image-stabilized smart binoculars live up to their name.

"I felt like it was time to give the Gemini program its due. It was an opportunity not to be missed."

The name's Villeneuve… Denis Villeneuve. As the acclaimed director takes the helm for the next James Bond movie, we're looking back at all his epic sci-fi movies to date.

A European Mars orbiter spotted barcode-like dust streaks on the slopes of Apollinaris Mons, revealing how tiny avalanches help drive the Red Planet's massive dust cycle.

"Every single subframe I take (prior to stacking) now contains at least one, and usually more than one satellite streak."

Mars and Mercury will appear close to one another in the southwestern sky on Nov. 12.

A congressional letter is putting NASA on blast.

India took another step toward its first-ever human spaceflight last week, successfully testing the parachute system for its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule.

"This study changes how we see the Pleiades — not just seven bright stars, but thousands of long-lost siblings scattered across the whole sky."

After a tense wait, it's finally been confirmed that Alien: Earth will return to our TV screens with more horrors in season 2.

Vivid auroras lit up skies across North America and Europe as a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest this solar cycle, rattled Earth's magnetic field.

The dome of the Gemini North telescope can be seen on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, with shimmering star trails and satellite streaks arcing overhead.

Excess heat detected at Saturn moon Enceladus' north pole helps to account for a finely balanced energy budget that keeps the moon's ocean liquefied. What could this mean in the search for life?

There is still time to look out for Taurid meteors lighting up November nights.

The perfect playset for kids wanting to jet off into space, the Lego City Modular Galactic Spaceship is a fun, detailed build.

"Solar Orbiter can now provide this missing piece of the puzzle."

I took my Canon EOS Rebel T3i and headed to the fields to see whether the 14-year-old camera could grab great photos of the night sky.

New lab experiments suggest that water may not be a rare visitor delivered by chance but rather a fundamental ingredient woven into the process of planetary birth.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Indiana as two incoming coronal mass ejections could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.