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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Post-Flight News Conference (Jan. 21, 2026) – YouTube Watch On Four astronauts will discuss their shorter-than-expected space mission during a press conference today (Jan. 21), and you

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to the icy outskirts of its planet-forming disk,

Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has left a trail of dust in its wake. The

Look high above the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Jan. 27 to see the waxing gibbous moon shine alongside the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation

A comet was caught falling apart on camera, using a powerful telescope in Hawaii. Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbled in high-resolution footage captured by the Gemini North telescope atop Mauna

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to dazzling new images from the James

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered thousands of strangely bleached rocks on Mars that are rich in a mineral difficult to form without long-term exposure to water, adding fresh evidence that

NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed its first-ever drive on Mars fully planned by artificial intelligence, the space agency announced. The demonstration, carried out on Dec. 8 and Dec. 10 of

A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars even before they slam together; their magnetospheres, the most powerful magnetic fields

If there is one thing that has bothered me over my nearly 60-some years as an amateur astronomer, it is the way that most astronomy books give the impression that