Space News

One of the largest antennas in NASAs Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system. The post Key antenna in NASAs Deep Space Network damaged ap...

Aboard China's space station, astronauts have begun using a new hot air oven delivered by Shenzhou XXI to prepare freshly baked dishes, including chicken wings and steaks, as shown in a recent video from orbit.

Quantum gravity seeks to unify the theory of general relativity with quantum physics to describe how gravity works at very small scales. But there's a big puzzle surrounding the idea.

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors caught two black holes colliding 7 billion light years away, both spinning at nearly the speed of light and both existing in a mass range where black holes simply cannot form. The my...

It's a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the moon looks breathtaking against the sky, so you reach for your phone to take a snap. The results are, to be blunt, disappointing.

India took another step toward its first-ever human spaceflight last week, successfully testing the parachute system for its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule.

When astronomers detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, it raised a critical question, could this world's atmosphere even survive its host star's radiation? A new study using the...

NASA's plans for a permanent lunar base face the threat of up to 23,000 micrometeoroid impacts per year travelling at speeds of 70 kilometres per second. A new study quantifies this relentless bombardment for the fir...

A congressional letter is putting NASA on blast.

Mars and Mercury will appear close to one another in the southwestern sky on Nov. 12.

"Every single subframe I take (prior to stacking) now contains at least one, and usually more than one satellite streak."

Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky - climate modeling even more so. But their slowing increasing ability to predict what the natural world will throw at us humans is largely thanks to two things - better models and...

A European Mars orbiter spotted barcode-like dust streaks on the slopes of Apollinaris Mons, revealing how tiny avalanches help drive the Red Planet's massive dust cycle.

The name's Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve. As the acclaimed director takes the helm for the next James Bond movie, we're looking back at all his epic sci-fi movies to date.

"I felt like it was time to give the Gemini program its due. It was an opportunity not to be missed."

We put the Kenko VC Smart Cellarto 10x30 WP through their paces to find out if these image-stabilized smart binoculars live up to their name.

This quiz explores the world's most powerful telescopes and observatories - on Earth and beyond.

At a young age, we're told how the sun warms Earth and makes life possible. That idea sticks with most of us for life. But when we want to understand things more thoroughly and we dig more deeply, we learn that Earth...

More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface.

Titan, Saturn's largest natural satellite, captivates scientists with its Earth-like processes, dense nitrogen atmosphere, and surface lakes of liquid hydrocarbons. However, its nonuniform gravity field, thick haze, ...

A new shock-and-awe movie might sharpen public concern about American vulnerability to nuclear attack and defense against it. The fictionalHouse of Dynamiteshows United States leaders trying to respond to a single bolt-f...

This image captures Comet Lemmon in dramatic fashion, its bright coma and faint tail arcing across the starfield.