Space News

A huge Chinese rocket body is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, but that doesn't mean you should scurry into a bunker.

NASA's veteran Mars orbiter captured a stunning image of a Martian dune field that reveals intricate details that might help scientists learn more about weather patterns in the planet's past.

The moon's surface is pockmarked with hundreds of little pits, each about the size of a large building, and it may not be just the pits' size that would feel familiar to an astronaut.

The solution as to why gravity is so weak may come from taking a closer look at the Higgs boson.

Russia's departure from the International Space Station program isn't exactly imminent, it would seem.

The stamp commemorates the start of the telescope's science mission and depicts the telescope's iconic golden honeycomb mirror and its large sunshields in space.

Intense blasts of radiation called gamma-ray bursts originate from neutron star mergers in distant galaxies, but until now the origins of some of these eruptions couldn't be pinpointed.

The experimental Airbus Zephyr drone has been airborne for over 42 straight days, setting a new record for an uncrewed flight.

China guided its Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft to a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere late Tuesday night (July 26).

Powerful storms around the North Pole of Jupiter swirl in mesmerizing images captured by NASA's Juno probe during its close approach to the giant planet on July 5.

A bright fireball exploded over Texas on Sunday night (July 24), waking up hundreds of residents with a sonic boom, which suggests parts of the rock may have reached Earth.

The redesigned NASA-European campaign will task the Perseverance rover with delivering Red Planet samples to a rocket, with the drones as backup retrieval options.

The VR headsets are rising in price to $399.99 for the 128GB model and $499.99 for the 256GB model.

Marvel Studios delivers a sneak peek at Disney's new "I Am Groot" series during their San Diego Comic-Con panel.

Russia's announcement Tuesday (July 26) that it would leave the ISS after 2024 sounds definitive, but experts disagree on how far the country will go.

A jacket worn by Buzz Aldrin set a new record for the most-ever paid at auction for a flown-in-space artifact, while Aldrin's pen credited with saving the Apollo 11 mission failed to sell.

Titan Books expands the "Firefly" 'Verse with a seventh tie-in novel, "What Makes Us Mighty."

The newest piece of big Chinese space junk will fall back to Earth around the end of the month, experts predict.

Ex-astronaut Dan Tani discusses his role in designing the new co-op board game, "Lunar Outpost."

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another one.