Space News & Blog Articles

The closest extreme magnetic dead star or magnetar to Earth suddenly burst back to life to give astronomers a sight of unexpected and unexplained phenomena that are unlike anything seen before.

CNN is set to conclude airing a four-part series on space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated last return to Earth. "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" airs on Sunday (April 14).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is set to lift off for a record-setting 20th time on Friday (April 12), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.

Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. But there were no flares during totality, so what did people see?

The Fallout video game franchise (now also a streaming series) is known for its unique take on the post-apocalypse, but it's also quite interested in outer space.

Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to drop vital payloads from orbit to anywhere on Earth's surface within 90 minutes.

I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.

Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astronomers using the ALMA telescope array have found.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon.

A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with another star.

A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, asteroid 2024 GJ2 will miss the planet by the skin of its teeth.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our screens with Tales of the Empire, a brand-new anthology series.

The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.

My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two ancestral lines to meet, eclipse-style, at a Canadian rail station near an airport.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyonov logged almost 12 days in space and orbited Earth 189 times.

Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad space weather hits.

More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.

We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.

On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the theoretical physicist has left on physics is immense.

Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.