Space News & Blog Articles

On Sunday (Jan. 22), the planets Saturn and Venus will make a close approach to each other in the night sky, separated by no more than the width of a finger.

Scientists and engineers from NASA and the European Space Agency want to know a whole lot more about why Venus resembles Earth in so many ways, and yet is so strikingly different.

The return of Lucasfilm's hit Star Wars series is around the corner. But what do we want, beyond the obvious, from the Mandalorian and Grogu's next adventure?

The planet Venus is the undisputed star of the night skies throughout 2023

A growing spaceport in Nova Scotia has one less barrier to launching orbital missions, after the Canadian government announced it would consider licensing approvals.

Scientists have returned from Antarctica with an impressive haul of meteorites, including a near-17-pound monster.

The new moon on Saturday (Jan. 21) is the closest new moon in 992 years at just 221,561 miles (356,568 km) away, but you won't be able to see anything from Earth.

Despite the initial, jubilant reaction, there is some justifiable cause for concern with how this beloved franchise is handled.

Frank Rubio and two cosmonaut colleagues may not come home from the International Space Station until late September — six months later than initially planned.

The Subaru Telescope spotted a spiral shape in the sky shortly after SpaceX sent a GPS satellite to space on Wednesday (Jan. 18).

A 'sticky' foothold and a stubborn strut caused problems for astronauts Koichi Wakata and Nicole Mann as they conducted a spacewalk Jan. 20 to prepare the International Space Station for new solar arrays.

Aurora Flight Sciences will start the detailed design of the novel, high-performance aircraft as it powers towards an X-plane demonstration flight.

NASA's tiny Ingenuity helicopter flew for the 40th time on Mars Thursday (Jan. 19), covering about 584 feet (178 meters) of ground during a 92-second sortie.

The James Webb Space Telescope has for the first time peered inside a planet-forming disk of dust surrounding a nearby star, a development promising to supercharge the search for exoplanets.

Tiny but bright flashes in the sun's corona that precede solar flares could help astronomers predict when the next one might occur.

The conjunction of Venus and Saturn will be livestreamed so astronomy fans can watch it from the comfort of their homes without having to brave the bitter cold of a January evening.

After years of conflict, a Hawaiian mountain that's home to some of the most important astronomical observatories on Earth finds itself at peace.

Here we look at what leptons are, how they fit in the Standard Model of particle physics, and their importance in atoms and particle decay.

SpaceX's sixth contracted astronaut flight to the International Space Station for NASA will launch on Feb. 26, if all goes according to plan.

The first U.S. rocket stage to be recovered after its launch, an artifact from Gemini 5, has landed at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum, not far from where it lifted off almost 60 years ago.

Astronomers have detected a radio signal from the most distant galaxy yet. The special radio wavelength could indicate that scientists are ready to investigate how stars formed in the early universe.