Space News & Blog Articles

Why first officer Una Chin-Riley was on trial, and how it links all the way back to Khan Noonien Singh.

SpaceX lit the six engines of its latest Starship prototype on Monday evening (June 26), checking a key box ahead of the vehicle's upcoming test flight.

NASA has produced sounds from telescope data on five galaxies in Stephan's Quintet, a binary star system called R Aquarii, and a giant galaxy known as Messier 104.

An onboard anomaly sent space startup Launcher's Orbital SN3 vehicle into an uncontrollable spin following SpaceX's Transporter-8 launch June 12.

The Orion capsule that will fly NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission recently received an essential piece of mission hardware — a novel laser-communication module.

Space.com's review of director Wes Anderson's latest feature film, "Asteroid City," a heavily stylized tale of a close encounter during a high school science competition.

SpaceX has made more than 1,000 changes to the design of its giant Starship vehicle ahead of its next test flight, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said over the weekend.

A house-size asteroid zoomed past Earth on June 25 at a staggering 2,000 mph and the Virtual Telescope Project was able to image the near-Earth object in real time.

South Korean military authorities have salvaged North Korea's first spy satellite after its failed first launch last month, according to reports.

The tragedy of the Titan submersible might usher in a sea change in the tolerance of unclear hazard mitigation practices in space tourism companies.

Virgin Galactic is aiming for no earlier than Thursday (June 29) for the company's first commercial spaceflight aboard its reusable VSS Unity space plane.

The exoplanet LP 890-9c resides near the inner edge of its star's habitable zone, and if conditions are favorable it could potentially support liquid water and life.

The animations highlight emissions from different human and natural sources, with the main contribution coming from the burning of fossil fuels.

An exotic, ultracold state of matter on Earth is helping scientists study the behavior of "fuzzy" dark matter.

By shining a strong beam of light through two chemical compounds, scientists discovered a unique new state of matter made of particles called excitons.

The first commercial astronaut has placed his archives on display 19 years after he made his first launch into space. The Mike and Sally Melvill collection is now on exhibit by the EAA in Wisconsin.

ISS systems hit a water recovery milestone of 98% with the better processing of water contained in brine created when crewmates’ urine is distilled.

Scientists have discovered a weird celestial object that's blurring the line between planet and star.

When NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory isn't piloting a rover on another world, it's apparently helping make PDF files more secure.

The next time the CHAPEA crew will see blue sky, a year will have passed on Earth. Not that the analog astronauts are leaving the planet, but for the next 12 months they will live in a mock Mars base.

Florida's role in space exploration will be recognized by a landmark now that lawmakers have given the "go" for the project. The Florida Space Exploration Monument will stand in Tallahassee.