Space News & Blog Articles

The James Webb Space Telescope traced the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen to a kilonova, a collision between two neutron stars — an event believed to forge heavy elements like gold.

Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful burst test of the company's sub-scale inflatable space habitat, pushing past safety limits to explode the module at the company's Colorado facility.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface.

A shift in Mars' climate 400,000 years ago produced a change in wind direction that left its mark in the erosion of bright sand dunes.

Scientists have discovered granite created by magma deposits beneath an ancient lunar volcano that erupted around 3.5 billion years ago on the far side of the moon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to set a new reusability record early Sunday morning (July 9), and you can watch the action live.

Unfounded claims about a major solar storm in 2025 triggering widespread internet blackouts have been circulating online.

Though Earth's innermost core is solid, new research suggests that it hosts a lot of variation.

Climate "tipping points," such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, could come within a human lifetime, scientists have said.

SpaceX and the FAA aim to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a coalition of environmental groups, which seeks a more stringent assessment of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket.

The moon reaches its third-quarter phase on July 9, appearing half-lit in the morning skies before setting shortly after midday.

Apple TV+ has released a new extended trailer for the second season of its sci-fi epic "Foundation" that premieres globally on July 14, 2023.

Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have attached the heat shield to the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft, which will send astronauts around the moon for the first time in over fifty years.

A team from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has designed something that goes way beyond your typical rover, and may be the next step in robotic planetary exploration.

New photos of NASA's X-59 supersonic plane show the aircraft parked on the flight line as it prepares for a series of ground and initial flight tests.

More evidence of the potentially life-indicating molecule phosphine has been discovered in Venus' atmosphere, opening the next chapter in a heated debate.

Why the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, is so hot has been a mystery for decades, but machine-learning algorithms are now on the case.

Apple TV+ releases new details on the second season of "Invasion," a sci-fi thriller about what happens when an alien invasion threatens humankind's existence.

Evidence in a court room often requires an expert to explain it – Expert astronomers usually are not what one pictures in court, but that is exactly what I do.

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