Blue Origin scrubs New Shepard rocket launch due to power glitch By Hanneke Weitering Blue Origin has delayed the planned launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas today (Sept. 24), citing a power glitch.
Delayed: Delta IV Heavy rocket launching NROL-44 spy satellite By Space.com Staff A Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on Sunday (Sept. 27) at 12:10 a.m. EDT (0410 GMT). Watch it live!
Space Chat with Space.com: Tune in Fridays for science, space and more! By Chelsea Gohd Today, "Space Chat" explores climate change.
Blue Origin will launch its next New Shepard suborbital test flight today. Here's how to watch live. By Mike Wall Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard spacecraft will take to the skies this week for the first time in nine months.
Earth life may have traveled to Venus aboard sky-skimming asteroid By Mike Wall If there is indeed life on Venus, it may have come from Earth — aboard an asteroid that scooped up microbes high in our skies.
Rosetta's 'rubber ducky' comet has ultraviolet auroras By Hanneke Weitering Planets aren't the only things in the solar system with auroras. Comets can have them too, data from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has revealed.
SpaceX pops Starship tank on purpose in explosive pressure test By Mike Wall The Starship SN7.1 tank was destroyed on purpose last night (Sept. 22) at SpaceX's South Texas facilities, during a pressure test designed to take the stainless-steel hardware to its bursting point.
Surprise! The ring around M87 galaxy's monster black hole wobbles over time. By Mike Wall The first black hole to be imaged directly is giving up even more of its secrets.
Earth may get a new minimoon — but it may just be 1960s space junk By Meghan Bartels Every once in a while, orbital trajectories and fate's gravity conspire to let Earth briefly adopt a miniature moon to join us for a few measures of our planet's constant dance around the sun.
RV-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than the moon By Laura Geggel Earth will change the direction of an asteroid that's getting awfully close this week.
China's Chang'e 3 lunar lander still going strong after 7 years on the moon By Andrew Jones China has lunar spacecraft operating on both the near and far sides of the moon, according to an update from the China National Space Administration.
What could a space telescope just for solar system science do? By Meghan Bartels To date, planetary scientists have built spacecraft and astrophysicists have built space telescopes. But the time has come to change that, some solar system researchers say.
'Leviathan Falls': The 9th and final book of epic 'The Expanse' sci-fi series revealed By Doris Elin Urrutia The new book will be coming out in 2021.
Astronauts take shelter as space station dodges orbital junk By Mike Wall The International Space Station just dodged a fast-moving hunk of orbiting junk.
NASA and US Space Force team up for planetary defense, moon trips and more By Chelsea Gohd NASA and the United States Space Force are banding together for the future of human spaceflight.
Hello fall! Equinox kicks off autumn on Sept. 22 By Laura Geggel Going forward, the North Pole will be plunged into twilight and then darkness.
NASA still targeting moon's south pole for 2024 crew landing By Mike Wall NASA is definitely targeting the moon's south pole for a crewed landing in 2024 — but that timeline will be difficult to achieve if Congress doesn't open its purse strings, and fast.
Autumn's celestial sea: Catch these 'water' constellations in the night sky this fall By Joe Rao Autumn officially arrives in the Northern Hemisphere on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 9:31 a.m. EDT (1331 GMT). And consequently, our evening sky is now one in transition.
'Pi planet' alien world takes 3.14 days to orbit its star By Mike Wall Scientists have found an alien world that orbits its host star every 3.14 Earth days, a close approximation of the famous mathematical constant pi.
Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus has fresh ice in unexpected place By Elizabeth Howell Saturn's geyser-spewing moon Enceladus may be even more active than scientists had thought.
