Space News & Blog Articles

After 31 years in orbit, NASA's magnetosphere-studying mission Geotail has come to end after the spacecraft's final data recorder failed.

The NexStar 4SE is a good scope for beginner astronomers — quick to set up and easy to use, automatically finding night sky objects for that instant wow factor.

C/2022 E3 (ZTF), a comet that has recently made headlines as it flies closer to Earth, briefly developed an ethereal third tail thanks to a weird optical illusion.

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is targeting an October 2023 launch, after a one-year delay due to software issues.

The moon will eclipse Mars on Monday (Jan. 30), and you can watch the event from the comfort of your own home thanks to a livestream from the Griffith Observatory.

The gaming sandbox includes rockets, airplanes, cars and anything else that you want to subject to realistic physics.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers observe a stellar occultation and discover the first clear evidence for water ice in the Chariklo system.

NASA has funded a new set of visionary concepts for space exploration that could one day prove useful — and perhaps even transformative.

NASA's Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission has been given an additional space rock to visit, bringing the journey's total to 10 asteroids.

Blue Origin plans to fly an all-female crew — led by Lauren Sanchez, the girlfriend of company founder Jeff Bezos — to suborbital space in the next year or so.

China is working on a new lunar rover that will begin to explore the south pole of the moon around 2026.

A new model for dark matter suggests an early universe phase transition and candidate particles known as HYPERs could finally shed light on this mysterious matter.

Twenty years ago, seven astronauts were returning home when they were lost on space shuttle Columbia. Like 19 others, the STS-107 crew made the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of space exploration.

SpaceX destacked its Starship Mars rocket on Wednesday (Jan. 25) to continue gearing up for the giant vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight.

Noctilucent clouds hovered over parts of Florida's Space Coast after SpaceX rocketed 56 Starlink satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Jan. 26).

The space rock, called 2023 BU, was discovered less than a week ago.

The National Science Foundation and SpaceX have come to an agreement on how to mitigate the damage to ground-based astronomy that Starlink satellites present.

That's a 27% saving on a 4K mirrorless camera that we rate as one of the very best for beginners on the market, it won't last long though as they're currently low in stock.

An H-IIA rocket launched a radar reconnaissance satellite to orbit for the Japanese government on Wednesday evening (Jan. 25).

Scientists are working hard to try to salvage a pair of spacecraft that lost their launch — and the solution might include the most notorious asteroid out there, Apophis.