Space News

The Hubble Space Telescope will soon go into one-gyroscope mode, a move that will decrease the iconic observatory's productivity but give it margin for the future.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), on Tuesday (June 4), issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than Thursday, June 6.

Extremely high quality images of Jupiter's moon Io, taken by the SHARK-VIS camera on Earth, reveal a major resurfacing event.

Proplyds, which are ionized protoplanetary disks, struggle to survive in the Orion Nebula as they come under an onslaught of radiation from a nearby massive star.

The third and (supposedly) final Venom movie is coming in 2024, and its first trailer is an intriguing one. Here's your first look at 'Venom: The Last Dance.'

Japan plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite this year, in an effort to reduce the environmental impacts of reentering spacecraft.

China's Chang'e 6 moon mission returned stunning lunar surface images as it collected samples and sent them to orbit to begin their historic return to Earth for study.

Astrophotographer Josh Dury was able to capture Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and the moon in one single image during a planetary alignment on June 1, 2024.

One of the Hubble Telescope's three gyroscopes started glitching recently. On June 4, NASA is likely to share an update about the device's status.

SpaceX plans to launch its huge Starship rocket on Thursday (June 6), provided it clears the required regulatory hurdles.

India's Agnikul Cosmos successfully launched a test vehicle powered by a homegrown 3D printed rocket engine.

This year's U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony was a reunion of sorts, as honorees David Hilmers and Marsha Ivins took the stage under Atlantis, the shuttle on which they crossed paths.

A Russian military satellite with a "history of unusual maneuvering" was spotted as it approached a satellite in geostationary orbit in April 2024.

"Twisted Tatooine" binary star systems could be a major player in ejecting rogue planets that go on to drift through the Milky Way without a stellar parent to heat or illuminate them.

China's Chang'e-6 lunar mission has carried out a successful far side touchdown and is already busily gathering specimens for send-off to Earth.

China's experimental space plane released an unknown object into Earth’s orbit on May 24, which could be a subsatellite deployment or an indication the spacecraft is nearing the end of its third mission.

China's Chang'e-6 has successfully touched down on the far side of the moon, and its dramatic approach to the mysterious lunar region was captured in a stunning video.

Supernovas spread the building blocks for new stars and planets throughout the cosmos, and evidence of these stellar explosions could be extracted from moon dust.

Peru and Slovakia both signed NASA's Artemis Accords on Thursday (May 30). It's an agreement that promises peaceful and transparent exploration of the moon and outer space.

There have been some rumblings of the next Star Wars series, The Acolyte, getting the axe before its first season even premieres, but all is not what it seems.