Space News & Blog Articles

Rocket Lab will launch an ambitious space-junk inspection mission for the Japanese company Astroscale this morning (Feb. 18), and you can watch the action live.

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander has beamed home its first photos from the final frontier, gorgeous selfies that show its home planet in the background.

On Episode 98 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss what NASA's up to with the agency's Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.

Uruguay has joined the Artemis Accords, the United States' effort to establish widespread principles to guide space exploration.

NASA just released photos of the Orion spacecraft that will send four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, which will lift off no earlier than September 2025.

Satellites captured Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket standing upright at Launch Complex 36 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Voyager 1 hasn't spoken since December of last year. Scientists are trying to fix the historic probe, but they're also preparing to say goodbye.

Here's how to avoid getting stuck in traffic when heading to see the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Japan's new H3 rocket reached orbit for the first time today (Feb. 16), bouncing back from a failure on its debut test flight nearly a year ago.

Get this iconic 2,961-piece Lego Marvel model before it's retired forever.

After months of waiting, NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return container is unlocked — and the space agency has weighed the total Bennu sample.

Russia's robotic Progress 87 cargo ship will arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch it live.

Canadarm2 berthed a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the International Space Station on Feb. 1. This is what it looked like, in space and from the orbiting complex.

India plans to launch its INSAT-3DS weather and disaster-warning spacecraft to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch it live.

The White House reassured the American public that a Russian nuclear space weapon, currently in development, poses no threat to people or property on Earth.

Grab a copy of Space.com's 2024 solar eclipse edition and a pair of solar eclipse glasses to get ready for April's exciting event.

The upcoming photobook 'Route de la Belle Etoile' documents the efforts and enthusiasm of amateur astronomers worldwide.

SpaceX and NASA postponed the launch of their joint Crew-8 mission to the ISS to no earlier than March 1 due to the recent IM-1 private moon lander launch.

Using a smartphone, it's possible to produce spectacular images and videos of April's total solar eclipse in North America. Here's what you need to know.

The moon meets up with the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades on Friday (Feb. 16) as skywatchers get a chance to see lunar landmarks known as the Lunar X and Lunar V.

The Hulkbuster is one of the best Lego Marvel sets you can buy, and it's currently 30% off at Lego.com.