The Latest Breaking News on Space

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Found Something Unexpected During Its Flyby

The team behind NASA's asteroid-tracking Lucy mission got a special treat this week.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2023

Swirling gas helps scientists nail down Milky Way's supermassive black hole mass

An independent mass measurement of Sagittarius A* suggests we have been right all along about how utterly massive this black hole is.

Space · Nov 2, 2023

Supermassive Black Holes Posses A Strange Mechanism That Prevents Overeating

A supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy violently shoves away 97 percent of nearby matter, disrupting star formation in the process.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2023

Virgin Galactic launches researchers to suborbital space on 5th commercial flight (video)

Virgin Galactic's reusable space plane VSS Unity aced its fifth commercial mission today (Nov. 2), continuing the one-flight-per-month tempo the company began this spring.

Space · Nov 2, 2023

Uranus Will Be Bright in the Sky This Month — Here’s How to See It

Jupiter will be there too, but that ruins the joke.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2023

Hot Jupiters Orbit Young Stars Because Old Ones Already Ate Them

A common type of planet (that our Solar System is surprisingly lacking), hot Jupiters don’t last long in their close-in orbits.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2023

Billionaire Investor Ron Baron Sees SpaceX Overtaking Tesla By 2030s

Baron predicts SpaceX's rocket reusability will drive its valuation to $500-600B, making it bigger than Tesla.

Zenger · Nov 2, 2023

See the world's largest telescope dwarfed by the Full Hunter's Moon (photo)

The steel skeleton of the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is illuminated by the rising full moon in a gorgeous new photo from the European Southern Observatory.

Space · Nov 2, 2023

Many of the Universe's Remaining Mysteries Exist In This Icy, Doughnut-Shaped Region

Kuiper Belt objects are some of the last remaining unexplored objects in the universe. Finding them has proved incredibly difficult.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2023

NASA's Juno Spots Ingredients for Life on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

The seawater residue found on Ganymede contain types of salt and possibly organic compounds called aldehydes, a precursor to the building blocks of life.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2023