Space News & Blog Articles

Record-breaking former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson appeared on CBS News on July 20 to talk about how the Apollo 11 moon landing influenced her career choice.

While routinely scanning the sky for the burnt-out remnants of dying stars, scientists stumbled upon a strange cosmic signal.

A Pew Research Center report reveals more than half of Americans expects to have access to space, but barely a third would be willing to make the trip themselves.

Fighter pilot Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian astronaut on the Artemis 2 mission, talks about how the T-38 supersonic fleet 'can kill you' and why that's important for space training.

Scientists will attempt a first-of-its-kind guided safe reentry to Earth's atmosphere with the European Space Agency wind satellite Aeolus as it heads home at increasing speed.

The grandfather of pop culture conventions is a somewhat scaled-down affair this year, for a variety of reasons.

China is planning to launch a next-generation crewed spacecraft around 2027 that will be capable of carrying astronauts to the moon and even beyond.

A new super-cool technique could shed light on a hidden dark matter candidate known as 'dark photons.'

Award-winning sci-fi fantasy author Delilah Dawson turns to the dark side in her new novel "Star Wars: Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade."

Astronomers have observed a 'slow' magnetar releasing bursts of radio waves every 22 minutes. The strange neutron star could change our perception of these extreme stellar corpses.

Astronomers have found the first evidence of a so-called 'Trojan planet,' in the form of a young Jupiter-like world that's being tailed by a cloud of dust twice as massive as Earth's moon.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed carbon dust in distant and early galaxies in a discovery that could challenge theories regarding the formation of cosmic dust in the infant universe.

The National Air and Space Museum debuted the first Barbie dolls to fly in space. They appear to be like all of the other Barbie "Space Discovery" dolls found in stores, and that may be the point.

Enter the immersive world of FPV drones with the BetaFPV Cetus X, a great ready-to-fly kit that can help to take you from zero to FPV hero in a convenient and cost-effective package.

A BlackSky satellite captured a series of shots leading up to Taylor Swift's July 15 show in Denver, showing the stadium and its parking lot filling up.

With a thumbs-up, NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg showed how space station astronauts use a Canadian robotic arm to safely throw away old space station equipment.

Ahead of its finale, Marvel's Secret Invasion puts some pressure on its villains and gives Nick Fury and the other heroes a fighting chance.

Rocket Lab pulled one of its boosters from the sea after a launch on Monday (July 17), taking another step toward rocket reuse.

Mars, Venus and Mercury will appear close to a thin crescent moon tonight (July 19), but you'll need to get out right at sunset to make the most of this grouping of inner solar system bodies.

A powerful magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, "glitched" when it destroyed an asteroid, causing it to blast out a fast radio burst and change rotational speed.

SpaceX aborted the planned launch of 15 Starlink internet satellites early Wednesday (July 19) with 5 seconds left in the countdown.