Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Space

20 Years Later, MESSENGER Is Still Giving Us Strange Hidden Gems

A recent study suggests Mercury may have a 10-mile-thick layer of diamond deep in its interior. We have MESSENGER to thank for the finding.

Inverse

Aurora alert: Moderate geomagnetic storm could bring northern lights as far south as New York this weekend

Northern lights could be visible as low as New York on Aug. 3 and Aug. 4. A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

Space

Possible signs of Mars life: Astrobiologist explains Perseverance rover's exciting find

Perseverance science team member Amy Williams discusses the rover's recent discovery of a rock with features and chemistry that could have been produced by ancient microbial life on Mars.

Space

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

SpaceX to resume astronaut launches on Aug. 18 with Crew-9 mission to ISS

The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Space

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video, photos)

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.

Space

'Cosmic dawn:' NASA's Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

Space

This mesmerizing NASA animation shows how carbon dioxide moves through Earth's atmosphere (video)

A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.

Space

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here's how

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.

Space

Witness to Titan sub disaster tells of rescue effort: ‘We lived in false hope’

Rory Golden was aboard support ship when submersible imploded in June 2023, killing all five passengers

The Guardian - US

After ISS: The private space station era is dawning

As the end of the ISS looms on the horizon, NASA and private space companies are looking forward to the era of private space stations and what it will mean for humanity's presence in low Earth orbit.

Space

Smartphones allow us to capture nature like never before – but are they also distorting our view?

Even if you weren’t lucky enough to spot the aurora light shows visible across southern Australia this week (and which may potentially reappear in coming days), you probably did encounter the onslaught of online news articles and photos that followed.

The Conversation

Hubble Telescope spots a stunning spiral galaxy shining in the 'Little Lion' (image)

A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.

Space

Ghostly 'zodiacal light' glows above the Very Large Telescope in Chile (photo)

A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sky at sunset, illuminated by a phenomenon known as the zodiacal light.

Space

Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe's lab is home to a centuries-old chemical mystery

A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time. Scientists found tungsten in Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there.

Space

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

Venus returns to the night sky as an 'Evening Star,' and its going to be brilliant

As we make the transition from July into August, Venus has finally begun climbing up out of the sunset glow in earnest and is now about to reclaim its role as the brilliant Evening Star.

Space

Space-junk scout captures amazing fly-around footage of discarded rocket in orbit (video)

Astroscale's ADRAS-J space debris inspecting mission completed a series of fly-around maneuvers of its target space junk, capturing stunning footage of a dead rocket stage in orbit.

Evening Standard

When and how to see the first supermoon of the year in August

The most recent full supermoon occurred on September 29, 2023 — but what is the celestial phenomenon?

Inverse

NASA’s DART Mission Snapped Pictures Until It Crashed Into An Asteroid. Here’s What Those Images Reveal

NASA's DART mission data is a treasure trove. It could one day help save Earth from an asteroid impact.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

No, Boeing Starliner's NASA astronauts are not stranded in space. Here's why.

Boeing Starliner's historic 1st astronaut mission has been extended repeatedly for thruster troubleshooting. But its two astronauts are not stuck on the ISS.

Zwo Seestar S50 review: affordable smart telescope for sky photography anywhere

Keenly priced and easy to use, the Zwo's Seestar S50 is a brilliant beginner option for budding astronomers

International Business Times

One Year On 'Mars': Inside NASA's Ultra-realistic Isolation Study

Sealed inside a habitat in Texas and cut off from the outside world for over a year, Kelly Haston was the commander of a first-of-its-kind simulation for NASA to prepare for a future mission to Mars.

Space

These inventive ideas could help Artemis astronauts make drinking water on the moon

Ten U.K. finalists have been announced in the Aqualunar Challenge, an effort to develop tech that can turn moon ice into drinkable water.

International Business Times

Solar Storms Could Cause More Auroras

Massive explosions on the Sun have triggered warnings of geomagnetic storms that could create dazzling auroras in the northern United States, Europe and southern Australia from Tuesday night.

Space

Astrophotographer peers into a cosmic 'eye' looking out into the universe

The Milky Way looks stunning above the Alqueva Dark Sky preserve in Portugal thanks to this mosaic from astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

Inverse

Apple's Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Show Could Take its Wildest Time Jump Yet

'For All Mankind' doesn't have starships. Yet. But in a new interview, creator Ronald D. Moore says a Star Trek-style future for this expanding universe could actually happen.

1 … 231 232 233 234

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the European Space Agency

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

76 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.