Space News & Blog Articles

Popular astronomy app SkySafari has added a special set of features for tracking and viewing this week's annular solar eclipse, available for iOS users.

There are 10 primary types of clouds on Earth. Here you can learn about what they're made of, how they form and how they are classified.

Pink splotches of young star clusters disguise a barred spiral galaxy in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

These starquakes in space could help us study earthquakes at home.

An annular solar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. on Oct. 14. Here we look at what time the eclipse will start and where it can be seen.

NASA's upcoming Psyche mission could be incredibly valuable — not only for planetary science but also for the budding asteroid mining industry.

Weather on Florida's Space Coast will delay the liftoff of NASA's Psyche mission by at least a day, the agency announced Wednesday evening (Oct. 11).

New spacecraft footage from Mars Express shows off a rugged valley on the Red Planet, shaped by volcanic activity from the famous Tharsis region.

Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.

NASA has delayed a planned Oct. 12 spacewalk due to a leak of coolant from a Russian module discovered earlier this week. The cause of the leak remains under investigation.

Gaganyaan translates to "celestial vehicle" and is a mission to bring Indian astronauts to space.

The asteroid sample hauled to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission contains lots of water and carbon-containing compounds, mission team members announced today (Oct. 11).

Astronomers have seen a shocking wealth of young stars and ice water around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

The Canon EOS R8 is one of the best cameras for astrophotography on the market and this Prime Day, you can grab it with a $340 discount.

Explore constellations and star clusters with these unbelievably affordable binos — save more at B&H Photo (yes, it's cheaper than Amazon Prime Day).

Amazon is offering 32% off this powerful Newtonian telescope, now just $239.20 — ideal for beginners, but you'll need to buy it soon as the deal ends tonight.

An amusing anecdote from Patrick Stewart's new autobiography, 'Making It So: A Memoir.'

Grab the hugely popular Lego Star Wars Luke Skywalker's X-Wing Fighter with a 20% discount when you get it from Amazon today.

Amazon have slashed a whopping $218 off the Holy Stone HS720G drone for Prime Day and it's now less than half price! You don't want to miss this amazing deal.

A new federally funded space junk project aims to detect and monitor tiny pieces of debris, which are currently untrackable.

This big camera deal gives $500 off the Nikon Z7 II for Prime Day — if you're into astrophotography, you don't want to miss this deal before it's gone!