Space News

Just imagine it, the news stories are all over your phone when you wake! The day will surely come that we will discover that we are not alone in the Universe! What happens the day after though? A new research paper from ...

Learn more about the osteoderms found in monitor lizards - a hidden bone structure that may hold an evolutionary advantage.

Direct-to-smartphone satellite operator Lynk Global has officially hung up on Slam Corp, ending a troubled merger with former MLB star Alex Rodriguez's blank-check firm through a clean break and legal truce. The post Lyn...

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National Science Foundation-funded 'Alopeke' instrument on Gemini North, one half of the International G...

What are the JWST's Little Red Dots? While they appear to be galaxies, there's no observational certainty. New research examines the idea that they're actually stars, suggesting that they're actually the progenitors for ...

The New Horizons spacecraft is humanity's fastest-moving spacecraft and headed to interstellar space. Since its exploration of Pluto 10 years ago and subsequent flyby of Arrokoth in 2019, it's been traversing and studyin...

The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the long-distance save were prese...

U.K. scientists plan to send a small spacecraft to the moon's far side to detect faint radio signals emitted shortly after the Big Bang.

Magnetic fields play an important--if sometimes underappreciated--part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly affect massive st...

Media are invited to hear from NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 during a news conference beginning at 10:40 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 25, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japa...

NASA recently took its new X-59 "quiet' supersonic jet for a drive during taxi tests, one of the final hurdles between the aircraft and its first flight.

Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

Learn more about the Meteor Crater near the Grand Canyon and how it may have created a paleolake thousands of years ago.

On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held sinc...

The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, adolescent and elderly.

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency's Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spac...

On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for microscopes. The NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Educati...

S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, announced in August 2023 that "India is on the moon." The announcement meant India had joined the short list of countries to have visited the moon, and the...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system's evolution.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high velocity. This leaves an excavated circular hole in the Earth's surface.

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black hole and is destroyed.

Multiple space agencies plan to return astronauts to the moon by the end of this decade. Along with commercial and international partners, these efforts aim to create infrastructure that will ensure a "sustained program ...