The Latest Breaking News on Space

Earth Plants Can Grow On These Alien Worlds, A New Simulation Study Suggests

Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate the light of a star called a K-dwarf.

Inverse · Oct 29, 2024

Watch China launch Shenzhou-19 astronauts to Tiangong space station today (video)

The crew were revealed less than a day ahead of launch.

Space · Oct 29, 2024

Distorted galaxy whizzes through crowded cluster in new Hubble Telescope image

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the galaxy IC 3225 with a comet-like tail of gas streaming from its central disk as it moves through the Virgo Cluster.

Space · Oct 29, 2024

Nasa spots shocking ‘green spots’ on Mars

Perseverance rover found surprising marks after examining a part of the Martian surface

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2024

SpaceX's Starship booster was '1 second away' from aborting epic launch-tower catch

Super Heavy, the giant first-stage booster of SpaceX's Starship megarocket, nearly aborted its historic launch-tower catch during this month's test flight.

Space · Oct 28, 2024

Boeing considers selling its space business, including Starliner: report

Boeing may sell its space business in the wake of troubles with its Starliner spacecraft program, according to a new report. But the discussions are at 'an early stage.'

Space · Oct 28, 2024

Mysterious features on asteroid Vesta may be explained by saltwater

Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

Space · Oct 28, 2024

Watch comet ATLAS burn up as it flies into the sun (video)

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun today (Oct. 28) in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft.

Space · Oct 28, 2024

New Solar Telescope Debuts Dramatic Footage of the Sun Unleashing A Huge Spray of Charged Particles

This new tool gives scientists a glimpse of the high-octane activity in the Sun’s outermost layer, the corona.

Inverse · Oct 28, 2024

SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut released from hospital, returns to Houston

The NASA astronaut who was hospitalized for a night after the splashdown of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission has been released and is doing well, according to the agency.

Space · Oct 28, 2024