Trump campaign pulls 'Make Space Great Again' video that may have violated NASA regulations By Elizabeth Howell NASA was unaware of the video before its release on June 3.
Pictures from space! Our image of the day By Space.com Staff Sparkling stars shine like cosmic snowflakes in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows the globular cluster NGC 6441 13,000 light-years from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Astronauts 'capture the flag' for SpaceX in race to reach space station By Robert Z. Pearlman SpaceX has won NASA's "capture the flag" contest for commercial space companies racing to be the first to launch astronauts to the International Space Station.
Ancient explosion in Milky Way's core lit up gas outside the galaxy By Elizabeth Howell NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is further probing the remnants of a massive space explosion visible from Earth 3.5 million years ago.
Happy birthday, Falcon 9! SpaceX's workhorse rocket debuted 10 years ago today By Mike Wall SpaceX's famous Falcon 9 rocket has now been flying for a decade.
Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNA By Mike Wall Genetic enhancement could allow humanity to push surprisingly far out into the final frontier.
Why a microwave-beam experiment will launch aboard the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane By Rafi Letzter There's a microwave power experiment heading to space Saturday (May 16) aboard the Air Force's secretive X-37B spaceplane. Researchers hope it could lead to a new global power source.
Astronauts 'capture the flag' for SpaceX in race to reach space station By Robert Z. Pearlman SpaceX has won NASA's "capture the flag" contest for commercial space companies racing to be the first to launch astronauts to the International Space Station.
Astronomers turn back time to solve Einstein ring mystery By Chelsea Gohd Astronomers time traveled through archives of data to spot an object that made history in the 1980s and solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.
Life on Mars? Meet the new rover built to give us the answer By Roger Wiens NASA's Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another rover, called Perseverance, to look for signs of Red Planet life.
Life on Mars? Meet the new rover built to give us the answer By Roger Wiens NASA's Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another rover, called Perseverance, to look for signs of Red Planet life.
Ready, SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.? By Leonard David Researchers using China's huge new FAST radio telescope are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
Mars may be wetter than we thought (but still not that habitable) By Mike Wall Mars is wetter than previously thought, but not in a way that boosts its life-hosting potential, a new study suggests.
June full moon 2020: The 'Strawberry Moon' brings a penumbral lunar eclipse By Jesse Emspak The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur June 5 at 3:12 p.m. EDT (1912 GMT). That same day, a penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Best night sky events of June 2020 (stargazing maps) By Chris Vaughan See what's up in the night sky for June 2020, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.
You can see SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon with astronauts in the night sky tonight. Here's how. By Joe Rao If the skies are clear this evening (May 30), observers across the central and northern United States and southern Canada could get an opportunity to see Crew Dragon move across their local skies.
SpaceX 'stowaway' revealed by crew as sons' dinosaur toy 'Tremor' By Robert Z. Pearlman A stowaway aboard SpaceX's first mission to launch astronauts to the International Space Station may have set a new record — the most sequins to enter Earth orbit.
How to watch SpaceX's historic 1st Demo-2 astronaut launch live online By Tariq Malik There's many options to watch SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch on TV, cable news and — of course — online. Here's how.
Netflix's 'Space Force' is everything we hoped it would be By Chelsea Gohd Netflix's new "Space Force" series is the inside joke that went too far: and we love it.
