Space News & Blog Articles

China sent a secretive remote-sensing satellite named Horus 1 to orbit on Friday night (Feb. 23) as the country begins to ramp up its launch activity.

On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California's Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations.

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada captured a stunning shot of green auroras dancing in Earth's skies from his vantage point on the International Space Station.

A solar storm that swept across Earth on Monday (Feb. 27) forced SpaceX to delay a Starlink launch and temporarily disrupted operations of several Canadian oil rigs.

Two ultra-cool dwarf stars in a binary system are so tight they're breaking records. The stars are so close that they orbit each other in less than a day.

Japan has selected its first new astronaut candidates in more than 13 years. Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda were chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

The Hakuto-R moon lander got 855,000 miles (1.376 million kilometers) from Earth on Jan. 20, farther than any other fully commercial spacecraft.

Astronomers interpret the spectra of 10 well-known dark asteroids and find them to be water-rich like the dwarf planet Ceres.

Earth's next-door neighbor Venus may have a "squishy" outer shell that gives the planet a "youthful" appearance and may reveal how it loses its interior heat, studies reveal.

A quartet of large asteroids are zooming by Earth this week, but they'll all pass our planet with millions of miles to spare, according to NASA.

Can one of the best binoculars for kids, the Occer 12x25 compact binoculars, compete with the big-name brands? Our full binocular review and testing reveal the answers.

You read that right, you can get the Celestron Travelscope 60 portable telescope for under $40 now, saving over $60 in doing so.

Spectacular video shows SpaceX deploying the first set of a new generation of Starlink internet satellites after a launch from Florida Monday (Feb. 27).

IDW Publishing is releasing a new five-issue comic miniseries called "Star Trek: The Motion Picture—Echoes."

If the huge Jupiter moon Ganymede is more potentially habitable than previously thought, it could alter the end of Europe's JUICE mission.

The FAA announced a proposal to issue a $175,000 fine against SpaceX for failing to submit a collision-avoidance analysis ahead of an August 2022 Starlink launch.

China's Zhurong rover has provided one of the few peeks into what lies below the surface of Mars.

SpaceX will launch 51 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Tuesday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the action live.

New space rules will need to come fast to support commercial space stations and moon settlements, and guard against swiftly-growing space debris.

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reset its flight computer Feb. 18 and has been unresponsive to commands ever since, agency officials said Friday (Feb. 24).

Powerful solar wind is blowing from the sun these days, setting the sky ablaze with auroras as far south as England's capital London. And more is yet to come.