Astronomy

Blue Origin completed its 12th human spaceflight today (May 31), flying six passengers on a 10-minute trip beyond the Karman Line and back.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune.

It was likely a sporadic meteor unrelated to any major shower.

On Episode 163 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss Starship's recent test flight with reporter Mike Wall.

The Trump administration's 2026 budget request cuts NASA funding by $6 billion, which would lead to the cancellation of Mars sample-return and other high-profile missions.

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

Deimos Before Sunrise

ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

Saturday's celestial concert salutes ESA's 50th anniversary and 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II.

Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and sunsets particularly vivid

Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

Climate change and thawing permafrost play a role in destabilizing glaciers

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

SpaceX must figure out what happened on Flight 9 of its Starship megarocket, during which the vehicle's second stage made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean.

The House of Representatives’ first caucus to address extreme heat is being launched by a Democrat from the Southwest and a Republican from the Northeast

Blue Origin plans to launch its 12th human spaceflight mission today (May 31), and you can watch the action live here at Space.com.

President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Not all Full Moons are created the same. Follow the familiar Moon long enough, and you'll notice something strange, as it seems to wander across the sky from north to south, from one cycle to the next. Welcome to the fantastic precession of our natural satellite the Moon. Last December, we saw the 'Long Night's Full Moon,' as the Full Moon nearest to the solstice rode the highest in the sky for the last two decades. Now, its time for the southern hemisphere to get a turn, as the Moon heads steeply southward, on its way to Full on June 11th.

Researchers have developed algorithms that reconstruct a hidden image from the scrambled light waves that bounce off a wall, making it possible to see things behind a corner