Space Exploration

Astronaut captures aurora magic from the ISS | Space photo of the day for May 28, 2026

What is Star City, the secret Cold War cosmonaut training town in Apple TV's new 'For All Mankind' spinoff?

Seeing double with the Artemis 2 rocket boosters | Space photo of the day for May 26, 2026

China reveals 3-person Shenzhou 23 crew, including Hong Kong's 1st astronaut

The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space photo of the day for May 8, 2026

Spaceflight is hard on the heart, yet artificial ones grow better in space than on Earth

These astronauts are trying to uphold the US Constitution: 'We need to make sure that people are using facts and evidence'

Artemis 2 heat shield is a sunken treasure in the ocean | Space photo of the day for April 28, 2026

Astronauts photograph Lyrid meteor shower from ISS | Space photo of the day for April 21, 2026

China's Shenzhou 21 astronauts return to Earth after being briefly 'stranded', wrapping up record-breaking mission (video)

Watch an Atlas V rocket launch 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit tonight

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida just hours after Blue Origin rocket explosion (video)

Incredible videos show Blue Origin rocket explosion could be seen from hundreds of miles away

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test

What's next for SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after its historic debut flight?

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12 'mishap'

China just launched 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station. One will stay for a full year. (video)

SpaceX Starship Flight 12: Don't miss these stunning photos from the launch of the most powerful Starship yet

NASA is hatching a 'fast-paced plan' to boost this space telescope. But first, they'll have to find it

Russian cosmonauts complete ISS spacewalk to install and retrieve science experiments

NASA will reveal the Artemis 3 astronauts on June 9

Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts take 5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS today

'Stop lying!' Conspiracy theorist confronts Artemis 2 astronauts, accuses them of faking their moon mission

NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid

Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle

This amazing NASA video shows the exact moment the Artemis 2 Orion capsule broke free of its service module, and we can't stop watching it

Artemis 2 moon astronauts snap gorgeous shot of swirling stars | Space photo of the day for May 18, 2026

This cryptocurrency billionaire will fly SpaceX's 1st private Starship to Mars, but when?

Moon lander preps for the lunar surface | Space photo of the day for May 5, 2026

Private South Korean rocket exploded last December due to hardware failure, investigation finds

Japan's private Space One Kairos rocket explodes after launch failure during 3rd test flight

Blue Origin pausing space tourism flights for at least 2 years to focus on moon plans

Blue Origin launches 6 space tourists to the final frontier after last-minute crew swap (video)

Watch Blue Origin launch 6 people to suborbital space today

Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper

SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?

DARPA readies robotic deep-space repair satellite for 2026 launch

Space debris is forcing satellites to dodge more often — costing us vital science. 'Things will get worse before they get better'

Vast, builder of private space stations, launches line of high-power satellites

SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say

Earth photobombs a satellite deploying its giant reflector | Space photo of the day for May 14, 2026

Cost estimate for 'Golden Dome' missile defense system balloons to $1.2 trillion

These 2 companies want to start removing space junk from orbit in 2027

Former NASA chief Jim Bridenstine takes over as CEO of Quantum Space

The UFO files: What did we learn from the Pentagon's 1st big release?

These Apollo 'UFO' images have been public for decades. So why are people talking about them now?

Scientists propose new way to find aliens — and we may already have a spacecraft that can help

Pentagon unveils trove of declassfied 'UFO' videos. How to see them all, from 'a football-shaped body' to 'a misshapen and uneven ball of white light'

Making contact with ET? Aliens may already know we're here

Disclosure day: If ET made contact, how would we handle the news?

Where are all the aliens? Maybe they just don't want to talk to us

No sun, no problem? How life could thrive on moons of starless 'rogue' planets

Where are all the aliens? Maybe space weather is scrambling their transmissions