Space News & Blog Articles

Tune into the SpaceZE News Network to stay updated on industry news from around the world.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here's how to see it

During the third week of October, the meteor display spawned by the debris shed by Halley reaches its peak: The Orionid meteor shower.

  388 Hits

NASA's Artemis moon astronauts may wear electric field spacesuits to fight pesky lunar dust

NASA wants to put astronauts on the moon again in the 2020s, and lunar dust is expected to pose a major issue. An electric field spacesuit project received a big grant to find a solution.

  383 Hits

A mud lake on Mars might be hiding signs of life in chaotic terrain

Martian biosignatures might be lurking in an ancient mud lake on the Red Planet, a new study suggests. But a landing mission is needed to confirm the satellite study.

  270 Hits

NASA tests new kind of Artemis moon-rocket engine in dramatic 'hot fire' test (video)

NASA wants to fly a better design of engine for its upcoming Artemis moon missions. The first of a 12-part series of engine tests kicked off Oct. 17 with a firing that lasted for more than nine minutes.

  210 Hits

Snake-like magnetic fields on the sun bring scientists closer to solving a major solar mystery

Magnetic snake-like energy patterns could bring scientists a step closer to solving a lingering solar mystery: how the outer atmosphere of the sun can be tremendously hotter than its lower layers.

  261 Hits

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence gets a new home at Oxford

The Breakthrough Listen initiative has moved its headquarters to the U.K. to take advantage of the reams of data set to come from the Square Kilometer Array.

  220 Hits

Record-breaking radio burst could help us find the universe's missing matter

An 8 billion-year-old Fast Radio Burst could help astronomers solve the mystery of the universe's missing matter.

  256 Hits

James Webb Space Telescope spots jet stream on Jupiter stronger than a Category 5 hurricane

The JWST's perspective on our solar system has offered us the 1st evidence of a superfast Jovian jet stream.

  202 Hits

Astronauts embark on a surreal survival odyssey in new series 'Scavengers Reign' (exclusive)

An exclusive interview with Joe Bennet, co-creator and director of the new animated series "Scavengers Reign" that follows a group of astronauts stranded on a strange alien world.

  209 Hits

Could Neptune's largest moon swing a spacecraft into the planet's orbit?

Researchers have shared a radical new idea for how to put a spacecraft in orbit around Neptune: Use the thin atmosphere of Triton, Neptune's largest moon, to capture it.

  191 Hits

Ultra-powerful plasma 'blades' could slice entire stars in half, new paper suggests

Stars could be sliced in half by "relativistic blades," or ultra-powerful outflows of plasma shaped by extremely strong magnetic fields, an unpublished paper claims.

  189 Hits

'Star Trek: Lower Decks' creator shares how to find humor in Starfleet

Space.com met with Mike McMahan, creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks at New York Comic Con 2023. He shared his approach to finding comedy in a setting that's often serious and professional.

  242 Hits

'99% totality' does not exist! Why you need to get to the path for April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will come to the Americas. Only those on the path of totality will experience the phenomenon to the fullest.

  315 Hits

Virgin Galactic sets date, announces crew for 5th commercial spaceflight

Virgin Galactic's next trip to the edge of space will include some familiar names, such as planetary scientist Alan Stern and science communicator Kellie Gerardi.

  202 Hits

Burned-up space junk pollutes Earth's upper atmosphere, NASA planes find

Scientists have detected the presence of air pollutants from burning space junk in the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere.

  246 Hits

Wildfires burned a staggering 30% of Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020, satellite data shows

High-quality satellite images show that the 2020 wildfires burned at least 2.2 million more acres (890,000 hectares) of the Pantanal wetlands than previously estimated.

  205 Hits

Queen guitar legend Brian May helps analyze NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples

Music legend Brian May has spoken about his role in the historic NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, which in September returned a sample of the space rock Bennu to Earth.

  239 Hits

SpaceX aims to launch 144 missions next year

SpaceX hopes to launch 100 missions this year and ramp its cadence up to 144 flights in 2024, a company representative said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday (Oct. 18).

  255 Hits

NBC's 'Quantum Leap' hops back in time to investigate UFOs in this week's spooky episode

A review of this week's 'Quantum Leap' episode, 'Closure Encounters,' which takes Ben Song back to 1949 New Mexico to investigate UFO sightings.

  182 Hits

India wants to land astronauts on the moon in 2040

India plans to land astronauts on the moon by 2040 and build a space station by 2035, officials announced on Tuesday (Oct. 17).

  197 Hits

Space history and future leap off the screen at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center can now see a space shuttle launch, a SpaceX Starship land on the moon and astronauts walk on the surface of Mars, all before they enter the visitor complex.

  207 Hits

SpaceZE.com