Space

SpaceX added 24 satellites to its Starlink megaconstellation on Sunday (June 21) with a launch from California.A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 12:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT or 9:39 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4...

Uranus appears to have far more water frozen as ice in its interior than astronomers thought, potentially settling a...

Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, brought high winds and heavy rain to the U.S. Gulf Coast in mid-June.NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image (left) at 10:30 a.m. Central Time (15:30 Universal...

A small lump of rock pulled up from the Pacific Ocean seafloor in 1976 is giving scientists new clues about an ancient cosmic event. More than a hundred million years ago,...

Defying recent live service trends in gaming, Warframe has been going strong for 13 years. It's one of the best space games out there, and it shows no signs of slowing down with the Jade Shadows: Constellations update.The online...

Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and outgoing ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun provide an update on the main outcomes of the 347th ESA Council meeting, held at ESA Headquarters in...

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026.About the size of a minifridge and operated from Earth, CAL chills...

Ariel Waldman is standing all alone on a planet that looks a lot like Mars. At her feet are...

Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will stream...

Venus’ bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in...