Space News

Epic Games' Fortnite Chapter 3 finale event destroyed the battle royale game's island battleground on Saturday (Dec. 3), then launched players into space to build a new one.

The U.S. Air Force unveiled the new Northrop Grumman-built B-21 Raider stealth bomber Friday (Dec. 2) to be the new backbone of the Air Force's fleet.

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio helped augment and restore power to the International Space Station during a seven-hour spacewalk on Saturday (Dec. 3).

See the latest news about NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission here.

On today's This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk Artemis 1 and more with astronaut Doug Hurley!

Diners enjoying the fare on the Centauri space station can take home a souvenir that dips even further into the solar system. Space 220 gives out trading cards featuring space food and exploration.

On Dec. 3, 2014, Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft to fetch a sample from an asteroid. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk Saturday (Dec. 3) to install new solar arrays on the International Space Station, and you can watch the action live.

Hawaii's Mauna Loa erupts for the first time in decades, a meteorite contains two minerals new to science and a stellar bridge connects two galaxies. These are some of this week's top photos.

The Andromeda galaxy has a history of galactic "cannibalism," the James Webb Space Telescope beholds Saturn's moon Titan and Artemis 1 is officially coming back to Earth. These are some of this week's top stories.

Two major NASA missions that have launched in the past year are revealing a communications weakness in space.

Three astronauts who spent six months in space constructing China's new space station are set to return home on Sunday (Dec. 4).

Arianespace will launch five Earth missions with Vega C between 2024 and 2026 on behalf of the European Union.

The full moon will appear in very close proximity to a brilliant Mars in the evening of Wednesday (Dec. 7) as the Red Planet reaches opposition.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX to deploy 7,500 next-generation Starlink internet satellites — one-quarter of the company's planned constellation.

The U.S. Air Force will unveil the new Northrop Grumman-built B-21 Raider stealth bomber today (Dec. 2), an aircraft that has been called "the most advanced military aircraft ever built."

The three astronauts about to take control of China's Tiangong space station have an action-packed six months ahead of them.

A Martian megatsunami may have raced across the Red Planet after a cosmic impact similar to the one that likely ended Earth's age of dinosaurs, a new study finds.

Less than two weeks after a bright fireball lit up the sky above the Great Lakes, another spectacular meteor impressed skywatchers in the Northeast.

Disney and Marvel Studios release the first trailer for next year's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3."