Spaceship Apeiron will be the first Delta-class vehicle, Virgin Galactic revealed on Wednesday (Oct. 28). Apeiron (pronounced "A'-per-on," according to the announcement) takes its name from the ...

On this day in space! Aug. 28, 1993: Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Ida on the way to Jupiter only to find a tiny moon!

SpaceX conducts a six-engine static fire test with its Flight 15 Starship upper stage on Oct. 27, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX) The Ship 42 tests come on the heels of a successful 33-engine static fire ...

Joshua Kutryk will venture outside the International Space Station on Oct. 29, on the first spacewalk by a Canadian astronaut in more than seven years. Here's how to watch it live.

The icy object, known as 2026 ED138, is likely between 600 and 1500 kilometers (373 to 972 miles) wide, scientists say. It's therefore probably big enough to be sculpted into a sphere by its own ...

Scientists have long known that when two black holes collide, they merge to create a more massive black hole. These events are so violent that they set the very fabric of space ringing with ripples ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a spectacular star-forming region glowing 161,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Virgin Galactic will unveil its first Delta-class spaceship on Wednesday (Oct. 28), revealing a name chosen by public vote before transporting the spacecraft from Arizona to Spaceport America in New ...

In this satellite snapshot captured on Oct. 20, 2026, we can see the iceberg in its current location near an underwater shelf off the coast of South Georgia. While it isn't abnormal for icebergs like ...

Astroscale made history with its 2024 up-close in-orbit inspection of a discarded Japanese rocket stage during the pioneering ADRAS-J mission in low Earth orbit (LEO), the region of space below ...

SpaceX's Starlink network consists of more than 11,000 active spacecraft. The speed with which the company is delivering them to orbit in bulk, however, has slowed somewhat. As SpaceX shifts focus to ...

SpaceX conducts a static-fire test with the Flight 15 Starship Super Heavy B22 at its Starbase site in South Texas on Oct. 25, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX) Ship 42 will also complete a series of tests ...