Space News

On Episode 145 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet the authors of a new book about spaceflight called "Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between," Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.

NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky.

Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations.

If parallel universes exist, can we access them? Let's explore the possibility.

As the shadowy branch of Starfleet Intelligence gets its very own movie, we look back at Section 31's morally dubious history.

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists said.

Blue Origin will launch the 29th mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan. 28, on an uncrewed research flight that will simulate lunar gravity conditions.

China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday (Jan. 23), but a spent booster from the mission fell shockingly close to a family home.

The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream telescope views of the "planetary parade" on Saturday (Jan. 25), featuring a lineup of six planets, including Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Venus.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth as it prepares to make its way towards lunar orbit.

In some cases, binoculars are a better bet.

The second total lunar eclipse of 2025 will be visible from Asia and western Australia on Sept. 7-8, 2025.

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this supermassive black hole feasts upon.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the study of exoplanets, worlds beyond the solar system.

A study of volcanic cones near the equator on Mars is challenging what scientists previously knew about when and where water flowed on Mars.

The Celestron 70mm Travel Scope is currently 36% off with a coupon, making it the cheapest it's been in a long time.

There's currently a $26 saving to be had on the excellent Lego City Modular Space Station via Amazon.

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ago, scientists find.

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24).