Latest articles by Sarah Lewin
Get your winter coats ready for the Geminid meteor shower, the bright mid-December light show that's one of the best of the year.
NASA honored the 97-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson today by dedicating a building in her name at the space agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
A NASA long-duration balloon mission observed glowing blue clouds that ripple at the edge of Earth's atmosphere.
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, occurring in early August. How much do you know about the celestial light show?
Get ready for the 50th anniversary of Apollo at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum with historian and author Douglas Brinkley.
Here's how scientists verified Albert Einstein's theory of relativity using a total solar eclipse.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA's groundbreaking Apollo program — and the 20th anniversary of Space.com — with a set of three free posters!
"Children of Ruin" probes alien minds of terrestrial and extraterrestrial origin.
NASA's Apollo program was transformational technologically, scientifically and politically, and it reverberates today in how the country sees itself and its accomplishments.
Just a month into a new observing round after significant improvements, gravitational-wave detectors have already used ripples in space-time to pinpoint five collisions of cosmic proportions.
As the forces of the universe muster against the ultimate villain Thanos for "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), Space.com took a look back at how the MCU has related to outer space.
In "Delta-v" (Dutton, 2019) by Daniel Suarez, out today (April 23), an unpredictable billionaire recruits an adventurous cave diver to join the first-ever effort to mine an asteroid.
SpaceX's upcoming cargo launch is still on track after a recent anomaly during a test of their Crew Dragon capsule.
Look up: It's the Lyrid meteor shower!
It's not just for the pros: With a little planning and flexibility, anybody can go watch a rocket blast off. Our in-depth guide goes through each of this year's U.S. launch locations and dates.
A new documentary April 15 from Science Channel follows SpaceIL's Beresheet mission, the Israeli moon lander that failed and crashed into the lunar surface.
A year on the space station has an undeniable impact across the human body, but many of the body's systems recover after a return to Earth.
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques snapped a photo of a Russian cargo spacecraft's zigzag launch trail from the International Space Station this morning (April 4).
India's recent anti-satellite test created 60 pieces of orbital debris big enough to track, 24 of which rise higher than the International Space Station's orbit around Earth.
Germany's Zweibrücken Observatory bears a striking resemblance to a beloved "Star Wars" sidekick.
