"Time and space are modes in which we think and not conditions in which we live."

— Albert Einstein

Space.com

Syndicate content
All the latest content from the Space.com team
Updated: 6 hours 43 min ago

This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 5:00am
A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX rolls out rocket for historic Fram2 astronaut flight over Earth's poles (photos)

Sun, 03/30/2025 - 12:00pm
SpaceX has rolled out the rocket and Crew Dragon capsule that will launch the Fram2 astronaut mission on Monday night (March 31).
Categories: Astronomy

ISS National Lab explores the future of space in new podcast 'Between a Rocket and a Hard Space'

Sun, 03/30/2025 - 11:00am
The International Space Station National Laboratory just launched "Between a Rocket and a Hard Space," a brand-new podcast series that explores the future of space innovation.
Categories: Astronomy

Earth's sea ice hits all-time low, NASA satellites reveal

Sun, 03/30/2025 - 9:00am
Sea ice impacts storms and coastal erosion — and NASA says Earth's total sea ice content has hit an all-time low.
Categories: Astronomy

European Space Agency launches competition to find its next commercial rocket by 2028

Sun, 03/30/2025 - 8:00am
The European Space Agency has kicked off a competition to support the development of new launch vehicles and boost Europe's access to space.
Categories: Astronomy

1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flight

Sun, 03/30/2025 - 7:38am
The first orbital rocket launch from European soil ended in an explosion when Isar Aerospace's rocket fell to Earth seconds after launching on March 30.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut flight over Earth's poles will be the 1st to grow mushrooms in space

Sun, 03/30/2025 - 6:00am
SpaceX's upcoming Fram2 astronaut mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in microgravity for the first time, as part of an experiment called Mission MushVroom.
Categories: Astronomy

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 154 — The View From On High

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 9:54am
On Episode 154 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space TV director Liam Kennedy about bringing content and video from the International Space Station down to Earth.
Categories: Astronomy

Partial solar eclipse delights skywatchers around the world (photos)

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 8:23am
The partial solar eclipse of March 2025 did not disappoint as observers turned their eyes and cameras to the sky.
Categories: Astronomy

X-rays, mushrooms and more: The science riding on SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut mission around Earth's poles

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 8:00am
Here's a rundown of the science experiments that SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut mission will conduct while orbiting Earth's poles.
Categories: Astronomy

A total solar eclipse from 2471 B.C. may have shaken Egypt's cult of the sun

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 6:00am
"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens."
Categories: Astronomy

Doom games in order: Chronological and release date

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 5:00pm
With Doom: The Dark Ages around the corner, now is the perfect time to chainsaw your way through all the Doom games in order.
Categories: Astronomy

'Chappie' is 10 years old, and Blomkamp's flawed humanist take on robots and AI is more relevant than ever

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 4:00pm
Neill Blomkamp's Johannesburg-set riff on Short Circuit and RoboCop wasn't a winner by any means, but it's far from soulless.
Categories: Astronomy

Solar eclipse US weather forecast: Best places to see the moon 'bite' the sun tomorrow

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 3:00pm
A partial solar eclipse is coming this weekend, but weather could be an issue for many hoping to get a glimpse of the moon "taking a bite" out of the sun.
Categories: Astronomy

Surprise X-class solar flare from emerging sunspot triggers radio blackouts across the Americas

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 2:03pm
"Further strong activity is likely!"
Categories: Astronomy

NASA astronaut who gave up seat for Starliner crew takes command of SpaceX Crew-11 flight to ISS

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 1:00pm
Zena Cardman,who was removed from an ISS launch to facilitate the return to Earth of Starliner's first crew, will command SpaceX's upcoming Crew-11 mission to the station.
Categories: Astronomy

Last chance! 72% off Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus bundle means you can watch all Marvel movies and TV shows, including X-Men, for just $2.99 a month

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 12:21pm
Watch all Marvel content, including the Avengers movies and the X-Men movies from the 2000s, ahead of Avengers: Doomsday next year, with a 72% discount.
Categories: Astronomy

Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 12:00pm
New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than astronomers suspected, some of which would fit with the orbit of Earth.
Categories: Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope discovers 2 galaxies forming breathtaking 'cosmic lens': Space photo of the day

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 11:36am
The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.
Categories: Astronomy

This spacecraft swarm could spot interstellar visitors zipping through our solar system

Fri, 03/28/2025 - 11:00am
Hiroyasu Tsukamota has developed a deep-learning-based guidance and control framework called Neural-Rendezvous that could allow spacecraft to safely encounter interstellar objects.
Categories: Astronomy