Space News

Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay in space an extra month, until March 2025, giving SpaceX more time to complete a new Crew Dragon capsule.

The FAA issued a launch license for SpaceX's upcoming Starship Flight 7, clearing the way for the company's next launch of the world's largest rocket from South Texas.

SpaceX is hoping to officially make its Starbase launch site a new city in South Texas.

SpaceX test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship megarocket again recently, practicing an in-space engine burn.

A new trailer for Obsidian Entertainment's "The Outer Worlds 2" was released at TGA 2024

The universe of U.S. postage stamps featuring James Webb Space Telescope imagery is set to expand again in 2025. The U.S. Postal Service revealed its Priority Mail and Express flat rate stamps.

A new trailer for "Edge of Space," a short film about a daring X-15 pilot flying the rocket-powered experimental plane higher than any other piloted winged vehicle other than the space shuttle.

Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope to discover the first binary stars around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

A pair of new behind-the-scenes videos for "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew"

SpaceX launched two communication satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Dec. 17) on the second leg of a spaceflight doubleheader.

SpaceX launched the sixth batch of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the NRO this morning (Dec. 17) from California's central coast.

An Astrobee robotic free-flyer with tentacle-like arms was tested in a demonstration experiment aboard the space station.

NASA has begun blueprinting the Endurance rover to traverse the gigantic South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, a wonderland of promising geological surprises.

A relic galaxy has been uncovered from the early universe, revealing new clues about what our own Milky Way galaxy may have looked like back then.

A recap of HBO/Max's "Dune: Prophecy" Episode 5, "In Truth, Blood"

SpaceX fired up its next Starship for an engine test before the rocket's next launch to space.

SpaceX's 31st robotic Dragon cargo capsule departed the International Space Station today (Dec. 16) and began the trip back home to Earth.

The Event Horizon Telescope, which captured the first image of a black hole, has done it again. The Earth-sized telescope spotted an unexpected explosion from the same supermassive black hole.

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says.