Space News

World Space Week 2025 (Oct. 4-10) explores the theme "Living in Space," with global events highlighting the challenges and future of life beyond Earth.

SpaceX was assigned five of seven National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 missions. United Launch Alliance got two. The post SpaceX lands majority of U.S. national security launches awarded for fiscal year 2...

New observations made with the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope (ESOs VLT) identified an enormous a rogue planet with the strongest growth rate ever recorded. These observations reveal that this free-f...

By modeling the limb darkening of a star, astronomers can get a better measure of the transit depth of an exoplanet. This will allow us to get better measurements of the size of exoplanets.

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA to the risky dismantling of the space shuttle Discovery (because Texas insists).

An expert discusses the many ways that Alaska's arctic sea ice melt is affecting the lives of those who live in the area.

Does this compact and portable smart telescope provide an affordable way for beginners to get started with astroimaging?

This quiz will take you on a journey through fiery facts, explosive history, and the science behind these fireballs.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has expanded its capability to communicate with scientific, exploration and space safety missions across our Solar System with the inauguration of a new 35-m diameter deep space antenna - ...