Space News

One of the instruments on NASA's Parker Solar Probe powered down unexpectedly last weekend, but the mission team expects it to come back online soon.

A massive solar flare erupted from the sun on Friday (Feb. 17) as the Earth was under a geomagnetic storm watch from flares earlier in the week.

Astronomers have studied the star formation process for decades. As we get more and more capable telescopes, the intricate details of one of nature’s most fascinating processes become clearer. The earliest stages of st...

Russia is moving ahead with the uncrewed launch of a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station after the post-undocking inspection of a Progress cargo spacecraft failed to show damage from a coolant leak. The p...

Russia's space agency said Saturday it was planning to send a rescue ship on February 24 to bring home three astronauts whose return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid.

The four largest moons of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - have newly discovered auroras that can be seen in visible light.

A robotic Russian cargo ship stricken by a coolant leak undocked from the International Space Station late Friday (Feb.17) while cosmonauts snapped photos of it looking for signs of damage.

Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

The comet C/2022 A2 (Pan-STARRS) will pass close by the sun on Sunday (Feb. 19), making its first and likely final approach to our star.

On Feb. 3, an asteroid more than three times as long as it is wide safely flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers, or a little under five times the distance between the Moon and E...

A search for companies to build OneWeb's second-generation constellation could kick off by summer, French satellite operator Eutelsat said Feb. 17 as it closes in on buying the British venture. The post Eutelsat nearly r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peraton won a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract with a potential value of nearly $400 million to provide ground services for polar-orbiting weather satellites. Under the Low Earth O...

Preparations for the first crewed flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner vehicle to the International Space Station remain on schedule for a launch in mid to late April, company and NASA officials said Feb. 17. The post Fi...

In a series of papers, an international team claims they've found the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes are responsible for cosmic expansion! The post Are Black Holes the Source of Dark Energy? a...

A stream of solar plasma arrived at Earth last night, triggering rare red aurora displays across Canada, northern U.S. and Europe. And more is on its way.