Space News

China wants to put a small constellation of satellites in orbit around the moon to create a radio telescope that would open a "new window" into the universe.

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 p.m. at night.

A new collector's edition of 'Marvel Anatomy' is out with never-seen art prints revealing the innerworkings of your favorite aliens, metahumans and more.

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg deployed a new solar array outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk today (June 9).

NASA is worried that SpaceX's giant new Starship vehicle won't be ready to carry Artemis astronauts to the surface of the moon in late 2025, as currently planned.

The Gemini North telescope turned its gaze toward the Pinwheel Galaxy, offering a crystal-clear view of a new supernova discovered in May 2023.

A satellite sees one of Hawaii's most active volcanoes wake up.

A new mosaic image released to celebrate 20 years of the Mars Express spacecraft shows the Red Planet as never seen before, revealing a multitude of features across its worn and scarred surface.

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

SpaceX's Dragon capsules have spent more time in orbit, and launched toward the International Space Station more often, than NASA's space shuttle fleet.

Skywatchers can see the moon meet up with Saturn in the early hours of June 10 as the two bodies make a close approach in the night sky.

Astronauts on NASA's Artemis moon missions might look for signs of life in shadowed polar craters — life that could have traveled with people from Earth.

An astronaut who helped assemble the International Space Station is now behind a series of space building projects that are on a very different scale. Naoko Yamazaki advised on Nanoblock's new kits.

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

A monstrous galactic cluster is devouring another group of galaxies whole, causing it to emit a 1.5 million light-year-long trail of hot gas from its rear — the largest of this type ever seen.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 600 million years old.

The Pentagon has confirmed it is buying SpaceX's Starlink broadband services to provide communications in Ukraine.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has obscured the view of Earth-monitoring satellites like GOES-16 and the PlanetScope constellation.

Aerospace giant Boeing faces a federal lawsuit accusing it of intellectual property theft and misuse of critical components involved in assembling NASA's Artemis moon rocket.

Long spaceflights can cause astronauts' ventricles — cavities in the brain that hold cerebrospinal fluid — to enlarge by up to 25%. And it apparently takes years for the swelling to go down.