Win some SpaceX swag in our latest giveaway! By Mohamed Mohammed The Space.com community has a special giveaway going on this week, celebrating the ambitions of SpaceX!
Soyuz MS-18 crew launches to space station 60 years after first human spaceflight By Robert Z. Pearlman Three astronauts embarked for the International Space Station just three days shy of the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. The trio launched on Soyuz MS-18, named the "Yu.A. Gagarin."
20 years of otherworldly thought experiments: A Q&A with artist Jonathon Keats By Mike Wall For 20 years, Jonathon Keats has been asking us to recalibrate our assumptions about the universe and our place in it through a series of thought experiments. A new book dives deep into his work.
Hubble telescope finds rare double quasars in ancient galactic collisions By Daisy Dobrijevic NASA's long-serving Hubble Space Telescope is seeing double after detecting two rare pairs of quasars nestled within galactic collisions that occurred 10 billion years ago.
Director Neil Burger's 'Voyagers' launches a colony ship to the stars By Jeff Spry What happens when hell breaks loose on a multi-generational spaceship?
Helicopter on Mars! NASA webcast teaches kids about Ingenuity's upcoming 1st flight By Samantha Mathewson NASA’s education team hosted a special webcast for students on Thursday (April 8) to talk about the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and its upcoming first flight on the Red Planet.
You can watch a Soyuz rocket launch a US-Russian crew to the International Space Station early Friday By Elizabeth Howell A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts toward the space station early Friday (April 9) on a last-minute mission. Here's how you can watch it live.
Watch live Friday: Soyuz rocket launching new US-Russian crew @ 3:42 am ET By Space.com Staff A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a joint U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station early Friday (April 9) and you can watch it live here courtesy of NASA TV.
A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core By Ben Turner But this may not be the end of the story.
The Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2024 is just three years away By Joe Rao Three years from today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, more than half a billion people across North America have the chance to see another Great American Solar Eclipse.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity unlocks its rotor blades to prepare for 1st flight on Red Planet By Meghan Bartels The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has unlocked its two rotor blades as preparations continue for the vehicle's first flight, due to occur no earlier than Sunday (April 11).
Teach your kids about NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity with a free webcast today By Tariq Malik NASA engineers will teach kids about the Mars helicopter Ingenuity in a live webcast today. Here's how to watch.
Tiny Astroscale satellite will test space junk cleanup tech with magnets By Samantha Mathewson Astroscale just launched the first commercial space junk cleanup mission designed to locate and retrieve used satellites and other debris orbiting Earth.
Space-based solar power getting key test aboard US military's mysterious X-37B space plane By Leonard David The X-37B space plane is being used to flight-validate the best ways to gather the sun's energy for power beaming from Earth orbit.
'World of Tanks' honors the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic spaceflight with 'To the Stars!' event By Elizabeth Howell Tank battles and space history will collide this month as the makers of "World of Tanks" honor the legacy of famed cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Philip Chapman, first Australian-born NASA astronaut, dies at 86 By Robert Z. Pearlman An Apollo-era NASA astronaut who was the first person born in Australia to train for a spaceflight, Philip Chapman died at age 86, having never made it into orbit.
These selfies of NASA's Mars helicopter with the Perseverance rover are just amazing By Mike Wall Two gorgeous new photo mosaics show NASA's Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter as you've never seen them before.
Air Force's new hypersonic missile fails to launch during key test flight By Mike Wall Some more work will be required to get the U.S. Air Force's new ARRW hypersonic missile up to speed.
Spooky 'spiders on Mars' finally explained after two decades By Brandon Specktor Enormous "spiders" cover the Martian south pole, and scientists finally have experimental evidence to show how they're created.
Alien raindrops are similar to those on Earth By Mike Wall The droplets falling through alien skies are broadly similar to the ones that splash down here on Earth, even if they're made of different stuff.
