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We’ll see a mass migration of SpaceX Starlink satellites this year. All Starlink broadband spacecraft currently orbiting 342 miles (550 kilometers) or so above Earth — about 4,400 satellites —

The waning gibbous moon shines close to the “kingly” star Regulus on Jan. 5-6, and some well-placed stargazers will even see the lunar disk glide in front of the bright

Saros is one of the best-looking upcoming space games, and not just because it stars the rough and gruff Rahul Kohli. Saros will get in your head. After a thinner-than-desirable

A powerful new telescope in South America is already offering tantalizing hints of what it can do. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop

Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon’s hidden

In-orbit manufacturing start-up Space Forge has produced its first plasma in orbit aboard the ForgeStar-1 satellite. It’s a world first and a major step toward the company’s vision of making

A colossal Antarctic iceberg that first broke free in the 1980s is now soaking up the summer warmth, and from orbit seems to be turning a shade of aquamarine. In

Thin lids of ice could have sheltered lakes on ancient Mars and kept surface water liquid even as the Red Planet’s climate became freezing, according to new research that could

Mars’ gravity has a surprisingly large influence on Earth, affecting our planet’s tilt and orbit and thereby contributing to climate cycles lasting hundreds of thousands to millions of years, new

Congress just sent NASA a monetary lifeline. On Thursday (Jan. 15), the U.S. Senate passed a “minibus” spending bill that allocates $24.4 billion to NASA for fiscal year 2026 (FY26),