Have you ever wondered how long it takes for each planet to orbit the Sun? From Mercury’s blazing 88-day year to Neptune’s astonishing 165-year journey, every planet moves at a completely different ...

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly more complicated car (or a Winnebago in Spaceballs). And George Lucas gave us those galactic battles ...

After more than two decades in orbit, the NASA is planning to end the International Space Station's journey. NASA has confirmed that the ISS will be decommissioned and deliberately brought down to ...

A pair of newly discovered comets are making a rare double display in the night sky this week. SWAN and Lemmon, both of which were discovered this year, have reached their closest points to Earth in ...

WASHINGTON — The Orionid meteor shower will put on a cosmic show in the night sky this week, giving stargazers a chance to see up to 20 meteors per hour. The Orionids will peak on Tuesday, Oct. 21, ...

SpaceX is working toward a Saturday, Oct. 18, launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. The launch, a mission to deploy Starlink satellites for Elon ...

SpaceX is working toward a Wednesday, Oct. 22, launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from the West Coast. Californians also have plenty of opportunities to see a rocket in person both near the launch site as ...

A California startup’s plan to launch thousands of mirrors into orbit has caused quite a stir among astronomers and wildlife experts. The company, Reflect Orbital, aims to maximize energy output from ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...

Just three days until liftoff for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and the Space Stage is ready to explore the future of space tech (and every other frontier of innovation). Space leaders Adam Maher (Ursa), ...