Curious Kids: Could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space? By Culum Brown Octopuses are famous for their alien-like abilities, from regrowing damaged arms to changing their skin color and texture.
'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 teaser trailer is teeming with Easter eggs By Scott Snowden Two 'Trek' titans will go tête à tête in the sensational second season.
US Mint to honor astronaut Sally Ride on 'American Women' quarter By Robert Z. Pearlman The first female U.S. astronaut to fly into space will be honored by the United States Mint in 2022, leading off a new series of circulating coins depicting notable American women.
Exclusive: A little-known Jules Verne adventure novel scores a sci-fi comic book series with 'Lighthouse' By Jeff Spry Jules Verne's 1905 novel "The Lighthouse At The End Of The World" is transformed into a sweeping sci-fi comic book miniseries from Brian Haberlin and David Hine.
Blue Origin aces 'astronaut rehearsal' New Shepard test flight By Meghan Bartels Blue Origin has another clean test flight under its belt.
Startup Phantom Space aims to launch 1st orbital mission in 2023 By Mike Wall Phantom Space aims to start launching orbital missions in early 2023, and the company just secured $5 million in seed funding to help it meet this goal.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins its farewell tour of near-Earth asteroid Bennu By Doris Elin Urrutia A spacecraft carrying pristine asteroid samples and 4,000 megabytes of data recently flew away from the space rock Bennu.
Salute the enduring spirit of the 'Verse with this shiny new 'Firefly-Artbook' By Jeff Spry Mal and the rest of the Serenity crew take center stage in this premium format hardback celebrating the world of "Firefly."
Watch live now! Blue Origin launching New Shepard rocket @ 11:56 am ET By Space.com Staff Blue Origin will launch its New Shepard rocket on a test flight from its West Texas site today (April 14) during a window that opens at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT; 8 a.m. local time). Watch it live!
Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago By Stephanie Pappas The permanent oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere took twice as long as previously believed and finally finished up to 100 million years later than expected.
Lyrid meteor shower 2021: When, where & how to see it By Jesse Emspak In late April, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrid meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun.
Japanese ispace lander to carry UAE moon rover to lunar surface in 2022 By Mike Wall The United Arab Emirates' robotic Rashid moon rover will be delivered to the lunar surface in 2022 by HAKUTO-R, a lander built by the Japanese company ispace.
Blue Origin to launch 'astronaut rehearsal' New Shepard test flight today. How to watch live. By Mike Wall Blue Origin plans to launch an uncrewed test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle today (April 14), and you can watch the action live.
On This Day in Space! April 14, 1981: 1st space shuttle mission lands By Hanneke Weitering On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!
Did lightning help spark life on Earth? By Chelsea Gohd Could lightning strikes have helped to spark life on planet Earth billions of years ago?
Weird 'blue' dunes speckle the surface of Mars in NASA photo By Chelsea Gohd What might look like a scene from a science fiction film is actually a real-life image of dunes speckling the surface of Mars.
SpaceX will launch Astrobotic lander to the moon with NASA's ice-sniffing VIPER rover By Elizabeth Howell NASA has a launcher for its ice-hunting rover that will land on the moon in 2023.
Alien hunters should search for artifacts on the moon, study suggests By Charles Q. Choi The famous equation used to search for alien civilizations has now inspired a new formula to hunt for alien artifacts within our solar system.
Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it's about to blow By Ben Turner Astrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.
Lego launching NASA/ESA Ulysses solar probe as VIP reward set By Robert Z. Pearlman Lego has a new mission for its recently launched space shuttle Discovery set, and you can get it for free — if you are a VIP.
