Space News

A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun's fiery surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun.

SpaceX just shared photos of the "megabay" at its Stabase site in South Texas, which is jam-packed with Starship Super Heavy boosters.

In the 1970s, astronomers deduced that the persistent radio source coming from the center of our galaxy was actually a supermassive black hole (SMBH). This black hole, known today as Sagittarius A*, is over 4 million sol...

Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances--in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region the size of a football field. The time that planets take to orbit their suns have n...

On Episode 96 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss the science on television with History Channel producer Jeff Stepp.

Amazon released a new trailer for Prime Video's cosmic comedy animated series, "The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy."

A nearby supermassive black hole is erupting, and astronomers spotted the outburst using the Event Horizon Telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged two exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars. These systems offer a glimpse at the future of our solar system after the sun has died.

Carl Weathers, star of "Predator" and "The Mandalorian," passed away on Feb. 2, 2024 at the age of 76.

There’s an old trope in science fiction about someone suddenly getting X-ray vision and looking through solid objects. It turns out to be a physical impossibility with our Mark I eyeballs. However, astronomers have fou...