Space News

Leave it up to the good ole Hubble Space Telescope. The workhorse telescope has given us a photo of the new interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. Take that, fancy new telescopes. 2I/Borisov has wandered into our Solar System fr...

A team from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) recently unveiled their prototype for a new assembler robot, which could revolutionize construction as we know it! The post An Army of Tiny Robots Could Assemble Huge Str...

NASA will provide live coverage on NASA Television of key events at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which takes place Oct. 21-25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

Elon Musk and Jim Bridenstine came together recently to discuss the remaining challenges for Commercial Crew.

After months of setbacks, NASA says that the InSight Lander’s Mole is working again. InSight landed on Mars on Nov. 26 2018 in Elysium Planitia. Its mission is to study the interior of the planet, to learn about how Ma...

Another long-lived NASA mission has come to an end, this one after more than seven years of dancing through the perilous belts of radiation around Earth.

Today (Oct. 18), NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir embarked on the first spacewalk in history to be completed by a team of all women.

US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir on Friday became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk--a historic milestone as NASA prepares to send the first woman to the Moon.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will participate in a news conference from orbit at noon EDT, Monday, Oct. 21, following their Friday spacewalk - the first to be conducted by two women.

If the Curiosity rover was paranoid, would it feel like it was being watched? Well, it is being watched, by its brother in orbit, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The MRO watched Curiosity as it travelled through the ‘...

The universe bathes in a sea of light, from the blue-white flickering of young stars to the deep red glow of hydrogen clouds. Beyond the colors seen by human eyes, there are flashes of x-rays and gamma rays, powerful bur...

President Donald Trump lauded two NASA astronauts on the first all-female spacewalk in history Friday (Oct. 18), hailing their bravery and skill as they worked outside the International Space Station.

Josie and the Pussycats are heading into outer space in a new digital-first series debuting on comiXology, as announced via ScreenRant.

Good news for scientists. Bad news for any asteroid dwellers.

NASA released a report Friday with recommendations from the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) the agency established in response to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine r...

October's Orionid meteor shower is one of the most reliable of the annual displays of "shooting stars." Unfortunately, this year, the Orionids are going to face a handicap.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ventured outside the International Space Station early this morning (Oct. 18) to embark on the first spacewalk in history to be conducted entirely by women.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history conducting the first all-female spacewalk, and did so using a spacesuit that shares a connection to Kathryn Sullivan, the first U.S. woman to walk in spac...

The world's first female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, floating out of the International Space Station to fix a broken part of the power network.

In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 4380 looks like a special effect straight out of a science fiction or fantasy film, swirling like a gaping portal to another dimension.

The Korean Peninsula in East Asia can be seen in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission...

Today spacewalks are an almost routine part of space exploration but the very first spacewalk by Alexei Leonov, who died last week at 85, was anything but straightforward.