Hubble Spots a Storm of New Stars
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located…
The 1st Global Space Awards honors late Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell on Dec. 5
The inaugural Global Space Awards ceremony gets underway this Friday (Dec. 5), as 340 guests converge at a…
Giant sunspot on par with the one that birthed the Carrington Event has appeared on the sun — and it’s pointed right at Earth
A gigantic cluster of sunspots — collectively around the same size as the one that birthed the largest…
Last month to claim a boarding pass and join NASA — 10-day journey to the Moon and back to the Earth 50 years later
History is a crucial part of our human experience, and in 1969, NASA proved that to be true.…
See photos of the December full moon, the last supermoon of 2025
See the last Supermoon of 2025 in views from around the world Supermoons occur when a new or…
The ISS Is Out of Parking Spots for the First Time Ever. Here’s Why
It’s getting busy in low Earth orbit, with a record number of spaceships now attached to the International…
Roscosmos Exploring Rocket Engine Sales to India
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos is in talks with Indian officials about selling its rocket engines to India and…
Voyager 2 Caught Uranus on a Bad Weather Day in 1986, Study Finds
When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity…
NASA Mars rover captures crackling lightning. Hear the ‘thunder’ yourself.
Scientists now have proof that Mars‘ dusty storms can generate mini lightning, putting to rest decades of speculation.…
Goodbye to the idea of a fully known Solar System—astronomers announce the discovery of a new moon that redefines our space maps
Sometimes it seems that we have already seen everything in the Solar System and that after decades of…
Astronomers find a planet orbiting at a wild angle no one can explain
To study the moments when the planet crossed over starspots, researchers relied on the multicolor MuSCAT3 and MuSCAT4…
Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?
The easiest way to keep up with Eric Berger’s and Stephen Clark’s reporting on all things space is…