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Watch live: SpaceX Dragon cargo ship undocking from space station

A SpaceX Dragon CRS-24 cargo ship will undock from the International Space Station at 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT) today. Live broadcast begins at 10:15 a.m. EST. Live updates.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship will depart space station today with a 'cytoskeleton' on board. Here's how to watch. Undocking is set for 10:40 a.m. ET. The capsule carries nearly 5,000 pounds of science ready to come back to our planet.

The mystery deepens: Ghostly neutrinos and fast radio bursts don't come from the same place Astronomers have more work to do.

How satellites have revolutionized the study of volcanoes Ten years ago, we would have known much less about the Tonga volcanic eruption.

Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

Hubble telescope spots a black hole fostering baby stars in a dwarf galaxy

NASA catches sun sending powerful flare into space The Solar Dynamics Observatory saw the mid-level flare near the limb of the sun.

Tech

Images acquired Jan. 9, 2022, from the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were combined to create this view showing the presence of a regional dust storm obscuring the location of Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (white circle).

Historic Mars weather delay pushes Ingenuity helicopter's next flight to Sunday

By Mike Wall published 20 January 22

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has notched yet another milestone — the first weather-related flight delay on another planet.

Artist's illustration of Radian Aerospace's planned Radian One space plane in orbit.

Radian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for new orbital space plane

By Mike Wall published 20 January 22

Washington-based Radian Aerospace announced today (Jan. 19) that it has raised $27.5 million to aid the development of Radian One, its crew-carrying single-stage-to-orbit space plane.

Spaceflight

An artist's view of a Pioneer spacecraft heading into interstellar space. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 are on trajectories that will eventually take them out of our solar system.

On This Day in Space! Jan. 22, 2003: Pioneer 10 beams last signal to Earth

By Hanneke Weitering published 22 January 22

On January 22, 2003, NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft beams its last data transmission back to Earth. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Space.com Staff published 22 January 22

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

Science & Astronomy

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted a solar flare on Jan. 20, 2022.

The top space stories of the week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia published 22 January 22

NASA's Mars helicopter faces its first weather delay and the sun releases a mid-level flare. These are some of the top stories this week from Space.com.

Expanding red giant stars swallow close-orbiting planets. In our solar system, the sun will engulf Mercury and Venus, and perhaps Earth as well.

Red giant stars: Facts, definition & the future of the sun

By Nola Taylor Tillman published 21 January 22

A red giant star is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. Our own sun will turn into a red giant, expand and engulf the inner planets — possibly even Earth.

Search For Life

An unidentified flying object captured on video by a U.S. Navy jet.

2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs

By Leonard David published 21 January 22

UAP will get more attention from both the scientific community and the federal government in 2022, experts told Space.com.

Image of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, which captures galaxies beyond counting.

Do we live in a simulation? The problem with this mind-bending hypothesis.

By Paul Sutter published 21 January 22

Does the simulation hypothesis offer a compelling argument, or is it just interesting food for thought? Let's find out.

The 10 most Earth-like exoplanets

By Elizabeth Howell, Ailsa Harvey published 20 January 22

Reference Scientists have found nearly 2,000 exoplanets since the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in 1995. These ones are most similar to Earth.

Reference

Skywatching

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites for the U.S. Space Force, on Jan. 21, 2022.

Space Force satellite launch could create a luminous cloud in tonight's evening sky

By Joe Rao published 21 January 22

Skywatchers in the Western Hemisphere may see a fuel dump from a satellite that launched earlier today on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

An artist's depiction of zodiacal light at the surface of the planet Kepler-1229 b.

Ghostly glow in alien skies: 'Zodiacal light' possibly spotted on 3 exoplanets

By Meghan Bartels published 21 January 22

Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.

Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured this telescope view of the potentially hazardous asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 on Jan. 17, 2022.

Massive asteroid safely zooms by Earth, a million miles away

By Elizabeth Howell published 19 January 22

At least one livestream captured 1994 PC1 during its closest approach of the next 200 years.

Entertainment

We are at a pivotal moment in history, five – yes, five – "Star Trek" shows are on our screens in 2022

Paramount Plus unveils new 'Star Trek: Picard' trailer, 'Discovery' season 5, plus 'Strange New Worlds' premiere date

By Scott Snowden published 22 January 22

We are at a pivotal moment in history, five — yes, five — "Star Trek" shows are on our screens in 2022

Space Race IPA, a new craft beer created in partnership between Salt City Brewing Co. and the Cosmosphere space museum, both based in Hutchinson, Kansas.

Cosmosphere craft beer: Space museum set to launch 'Space Race' IPA

By Robert Z. Pearlman published 20 January 22

For 60 years, the Cosmosphere has been a leader in the preservation of space history. The Kansas institution has everything you would want from a world-class museum. Everything, except its own beer.

Upcoming sci-fi movies for 2022

By Grace Dean published 20 January 22

Feature We have a look at the upcoming sci-fi movies for 2022 to see what we've got to look forward to.

Feature

References

Red giant stars: Facts, definition & the future of the sun

By Nola Taylor Tillman published 21 January 22

A red giant star is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. Our own sun will turn into a red giant, expand and engulf the inner planets — possibly even Earth.

How was the moon formed?

By Nola Taylor Tillman, Scott Dutfield published 21 January 22

Reference There are three theories as to how Earth's satellite could have been created.

Reference

A new time-lapse video of Earth combines 3,000 images from the DSCOVR satellite's EPIC camera to show a year of Earth's rotation, as seen from a million miles away.

How fast is Earth moving?

By Elizabeth Howell, Doris Elin Urrutia published 21 January 22

Earth moves around the sun and across the universe on its axis and at an incredible rate.

Watch live: SpaceX Dragon cargo ship undocking from space station

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