Space
The latest discoveries from space agencies and astronomers as they explore galaxies, black holes, exoplanets, and more. Also learn about night sky watching events right here on the home planet.
Latest in Space
![Astrobat SciKu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/AQV3ELWPODKF4HHDXQBPFEUXBY.jpg?w=485)
Science
Astrobat SciKu
![A gold-colored mylar emergency blanket.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/14/QXOQP2YCMFCBRPX3VXFWJ44LMA.jpg?w=600)
Engineering
The life-saving space blanket has humble origins
![Blue Origin’s New Shephard rocket lifts off.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/21/JRV5DSH6ANBRZFLBFT5K7LRQJQ.jpg?w=600)
Private Space Flight
SpaceX won’t be the only company launching commercial rockets in 2021
![A reconstruction of the sunspot captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on January 28th, 2020. The original image was taken in the wavelength of 530 nanometers - in the greenish-yellow part of the visible spectrum–. Researchers modified it to show up red and orange to the naked eye](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/10/ZN32BSWTWJFI7LWION32D4WCBM.jpg?w=600)
Science
The best space stories of 2020
![SpaceX’s Starship flies, belly flops, and bursts into flames](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/30/W5QYGT6IVOUBVWBDFHOOZ5MWUQ.jpg?w=726)
Private Space Flight
SpaceX’s Starship flies, belly flops, and bursts into flames
![The starry Arctic sky over an iceberg in Greenland](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/25/SEQ63OMMGRGCROTYXZBHWWIQQE.jpg?w=531)
Climate Change
Four science conversations worth having this holiday
![A photograph of the International Space Station floating 250 miles above the Earth.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/03/XV36SAQAKNAJXHUDB4ZP5GKGRU.jpg?w=600)
International Space Station
Humans have lived on the ISS for 20 years—here are the coolest discoveries we’ve made
![The moon is in line to get LTE.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/22/GVRV4HR4H5GGBPEEDUPVC6ZG4Q.jpg?w=600)
Internet
The moon will soon have cell service
![This rocket launched from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) on Jan. 9, 2014, and also performed a resupply to the ISS—though it did not carry new toilet hardware.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/29/OFOKRTBEUZBLTD3BPH5E6LYBG4.jpg?w=600)
International Space Station