Space News

Jupiter has been taking a beating lately.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! Take a strange trip through today’s topic: wormholes! Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen were the first to realize that wormholes might ...

The world's population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, according to the UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs....

Scientists are on the hunt for the origin story of a meteorite that smashed through the roof into a bedroom in Canada on Oct. 3.

A week after a filing an application with the FCC for a constellation of more than 13,000 satellites, Astra Space executives said that their near-term focus remains on developing their launch capabilities. SpaceNews

NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer arrived at the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 11....

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its close vicinity....

A lack of effective radiation shielding is one of the biggest challenges still to be overcome if humans are to embark on long-term voyages into deep space. On Earth, the planet's powerful magnetosphere protects us from t...

A shiny new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the company's Crew-3 mission docked successfully at the orbiting lab Thursday evening (Nov. 11).

A research team[a], led by Professor Saburo Matunaga of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), developed a 50 kg class technology demonstration micros...

When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in Curiosity's ongoing drill campaign at Zechstein....

Cancún, situated in Quintana Roo on the northeast coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission....

NASA has awarded $90,000 each to seven entrepreneurial startup companies under its Entrepreneur's Challenge program.

Glen de Vries, one of the passengers who accompanied the "Star Trek" legend William Shatner on a Blue Origin spaceflight last month, was killed in a plane crash in New Jersey on Nov. 11.

The Starship SN20 vehicle ignited all six of its Raptor engines in a brief "static fire" test today (Nov. 12) at Starbase, SpaceX's facility near the South Texas village of Boca Chica.

A study of how neutrons decay could give us a better understanding of the big bang. The post Understanding the Early Universe Depends on Estimating the Lifespan of Neutrons appeared first on Universe Today.

A space object with an intimidating name--"earthgrazer"--zoomed over Georgia and Alabama this week, offering witnesses a glimpse of something rare, NASA says.

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Nov. 30, for a spacewalk to replace a faulty antenna system.

Video: 00:02:42 ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer andNASAastronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron liftoff to the International Space Station in theSpaceXCrew Dragon spacecraft "Endurance". Collectively known as ...

What does the first beagle to land on the moon do for an encore? Explore the rest of the universe, of course. Snoopy, the comic strip dog and NASA mascot, is back for season two of "Snoopy in Space."

Adobe's image editing app is complex, so here are some less well-known tips to help you master it.

Forming planets are one possible explanation for the rings and gaps observed in disks of gas and dust around young stars. But this theory has trouble explaining why it is rare to find planets associated with rings. New s...