Space News & Blog Articles

Virgin Galactic will launch six people to suborbital space next month on 'Galactic 02,' the company's first private astronaut mission.

Moderation is what makes the old-school-style comedy work in this this somewhat take-a-chance installment

Whether need to blow up the Death Star or just want a sweet display piece, there really is no substitute for the Lego Star Wars UCS X-Wing Starfighter.

Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter will all be visible overnight on Monday (July 17) during July's new moon, although some will require staying up late.

It may be engineered for gags, but the 35-year-old show has never shied away from sophisticated sci-fi ideas.

An exoplanet orbiting a young star is carving out spiral arms in the gas and dust that is birthing its planetary system.

Gullies on Mars may have formed when the Red Planet was highly tilted on its side, triggering dramatic shifts in climate that sent water cascading down slopes to carve out ravines.

Call us Ishmael, because we've been testing this massive white whale of a 3D printer – the Nova3D Whale3 SE – and it's quite the machine.

A dazzling new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy that hosted a supernova explosion not long ago.

Data from the closest cosmic supernova explosion to Earth for 10 years was collected by a record number of observers for SETI, showing what the collective power of citizen scientists can achieve.

A popular hard seltzer brand is giving new meaning to the term 'pop-up bar' with a zero-g twist that could have its fans popping up and down and in every which way this summer.

One of the best meteor displays of the year will be visible soon: The Perseid Shower. But there also are a number of minor meteor displays that will be peaking in the next couple of weeks.

The velocity of interstellar objects passing through our solar system, like 'Oumuamua, can be correlated to their chemistry and the type of star they came from.

Three NASA Orion spacecraft for the agency's Artemis moon program are coming together at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted three objects that may be 'dark stars,' or stars that are powered by dark matter. But follow-up work is needed to learn their nature.

NASA is using an epic guitar score from Metallica to highlight its Artemis program, which aims to land humans on the moon a few years from now.

The Sphere in Las Vegas, the world's largest spherical structure, used its 580,000-square-foot LED 'exosphere' display to bring us Mars, the moon and Earth on July 4.

Astronomers have discovered an ultracold brown dwarf, a "failed star" smaller than Jupiter and colder than a campfire that is emitting radio waves.

India's third lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-3, launched on July 14. The mission's lander and rover are scheduled to touch down on the moon in late August.

Apple T.V.'s epic adaptation of Isaac Asimov's novels has been playing the very long game.

Moon craters used to measure lunar time have been reassessed, indicating some features are much older than we thought, possibly by up to 200 million years.