Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Space

SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)

SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship's Super Heavy booster during a test flight today (Jan. 16) but lost the vehicle's upper stage.

Space

'Dune' director David Lynch dies at 78

An obituary for iconic filmmaker David Lynch who died Jan. 16, 2025.

Space

Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Space

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Major milestone! India becomes 4th nation to dock satellites in orbit

India successfully docked its two SpaDex satellites in Earth orbit yesterday (Jan. 15), becoming just the fourth country to pull off such a satellite meetup.

Space

Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalk

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16).

Space

Our warming Earth: 2024 was hottest year on record, NASA says

2024 was the warmest year on record, according to NASA data. The global average temperature was 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the mid-20th-century baseline.

Space

Trump's space policy won't catch Europe off guard, ESA chief says

The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA's direction that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may make.

Space

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Photographer captures rare Comet G3 ATLAS from UK in dramatic 'once-in-a-lifetime' image

Photographer Josh Dury captured rare Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) in a dramatic 'once-in-a-lifetime' image after a challenging chase across UK skies at dusk.

Space

NASA wants a 'Super-Hubble' space telescope to search for life on alien worlds

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a flagship NASA telescope that could answer the ultimate question.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

Space

Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

Space

Moon selected as historical preservation site to protect lunar heritage

The World Monuments Fund has added the moon to its watch list of 25 historic places that face major challenges and has called for preserving lunar heritage.

Space

What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?

Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over the last few billion years.

Space

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket into orbit on 1st flight (video)

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket reached orbit on its first-ever flight early this morning (Jan. 16).

Space

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today

NASA's Nick Hague and Suni Williams will service the X-ray telescope attached to the ISS during a 6.5-hour-long spacewalk today (Jan. 16). Watch it live.

Space

Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA.

Space

Battlestar Galactica at 20: the show that reinvented space opera

How a kitsch "Star Wars" cash-in spawned a bona fide sci-fi classic. So say we all!

Space

The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 years

We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

Space

Uncanny 'Alien: Romulus' Ian Holm CGI fixed for home release as director 'wasn't 100 percent happy'

Director Fede Alvarez spoke to Empire about fixing the controversial CGI of Rook in Alien: Romulus.

Space

Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Space

Saturn disappears behind the moon in stunning telescope photo

A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in front of Saturn, briefly hiding it from viewers on Earth.

Space

'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' finale leaves us asking 'what's next'?

In its final episode, Skeleton Crew sticks the landing with lots of action and some genuinely tense moments, but its answers are limited.

Space

An ancient 3-star system gave this 'blue lurker' star a turbo boost, scientists find

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

1 … 39 40 41 42

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

European Space Agency

the European Space Agency

156 stories

University of Texas at Austin

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.