Latest articles by Sarah Lewin
The most dangerous thing in space exploration is the humans that do the exploring — right up until it isn't.
A supernova explosion flung out a super-dense, whirling stellar core, sending it streaking across space at almost 2.5 million miles per hour with a glowing trail 13 light-years long in its wake.
SpaceX's first tests of its prototype Starship may start soon — and you can watch them live online.
An ethereal track by Queen lead guitarist Brian May accompanies the awe-inspiring time-lapse view from NASA's New Horizons flyby of a distant solar system object.
An exclusive new clip from the upcoming PBS documentary "Chasing the Moon" profiles the challenges and triumphs of Poppy Northcutt, the first woman to work in Mission Control.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine praised the proposed 2020 budget from the Trump administration, describing how the budget will help the agency reach the moon, and then continue on to Mars
The Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" took home an Academy Award for visual effects this year, highlighting its ultra-realistic technical rendering of NASA's Apollo missions and training exercises.
Spin up the drum and settle in for a while — the first three seasons of "The Expanse" have arrived on Amazon Prime.
Satellite images from the company DigitalGlobe reveal a likely launch of an Iranian satellite between Feb. 5 and 6.
Hundreds or millions of years after a meteorite smashes into Earth, researchers are left analyzing the impact site to figure out what happened.
There's gourmet coffee, and then there's coffee roasted by the searing heat of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere from the edge of space.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.
The dense atmosphere roiling on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may come from organic material baking in the moon's interior.
No big nominations, but space films "First Man" and "Solo" have a few effects-focused nods this Oscar season.
The Hayabusa-2 team has introduced fanciful new names for the features found at the top-shaped asteroid Ryugu, including the first-ever outer-space boulders to get official names.
Viewers watching "Star Trek: Discovery" last night (Jan. 17) were treated to a more realistic, awe-inspiring view of Saturn's rings, courtesy of the real-world Cassini spacecraft.
A Japanese Epsilon rocket will launch a suite of seven experimental satellites this evening (Jan. 17), including one little cubesat that will test out creating artificial meteors.
The energetic core of a distant galaxy blasts past the record for brightest object in the early universe, blazing with the light equivalent to 600 trillion suns.
