Space News & Blog Articles

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket launched for the seventh time ever today (March 11), bouncing back from two explosive mishaps in 2025.

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Northrop Grumman's first "Cygnus XL" cargo ship will depart the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and you can watch the action live.

Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for future missions to the moon.

'The scope of 'Starfleet Academy' in terms of design, art direction, visual effects, practical effects, and graphics is massive.'

Our how-to for observing a meteorite through a microscope.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Autobots, roll out – out of the way, that is, because War Machine is proving how to do human vs intergalactic machine conflict better.

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Ready to launch your support? Check out this stellar collection of space-flight merch I've personally picked to back the amazing team of the NASA Artemis 2 mission.

The DJI Mini 5 Pro is the best sub-250g drone ever made and now $500 off at Amazon; this Fly More Combo bundle packs in extra batteries, an LCD remote and more!

Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.

'I just wanted to make a film that was completely non-stop from start to end.'

A spot of early morning astronomy anyone?

A newly discovered comet is rapidly brightening and could become visible from Earth — if it survives an extreme close encounter with the sun on April 4.

NASA has wasted no time in selecting the vehicle that will replace the upper stage on its new plans for a standardized Space Launch System rocket.

The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat's Eye Nebula.

Here are five ways to capture the night sky.

The Colorado company Lux Aeterna wants to help open up the space economy with a fleet of fully reusable satellites, and it just raised to some money to help make that happen.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form around other stars.

NASA's Van Allen Probe A will crash to Earth on Tuesday (March 10) after nearly 14 years in orbit, according to the Space Force's current best estimate. But don't panic; you'll probably be fine.