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
![International Space Station orbiting above Earth](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/12/51710869257_e57bca45a6_k.jpg?w=800)
International Space Station
NASA is paying SpaceX to destroy the International Space Station
![NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson is pictured in her spacesuit prior to the start of a science and maintenance spacewalk that ended early after her suit experienced a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/53815738204_aa5287f66e_k.jpg?w=800)
International Space Station
NASA is having one rough summer
![In the era of private spaceflight, who gets to be an astronaut?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/who-gets-to-go-space.jpg?w=800)
International Space Station
In the era of private spaceflight, who gets to be an astronaut?
![NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss structure 257 miles above the Pacific Ocean. In the rear, is the SpaceX Dragon crew vehicle that docked to the Harmony module's forward port on March 3 carrying four SpaceX Crew-6 crew members.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ISS-Spacewalk.jpg?w=800)
International Space Station
‘Check his pulse one more time’: NASA accidentally airs ISS emergency test
![Starship fourth liftoff](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/liftoff.png?w=800)
Engineering
SpaceX’s fourth Starship launches
![Boeing Starliner launch](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Starliner-Launch.png?w=794)
International Space Station
Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission for NASA
![JWST discovers earliest galaxy ever observed](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/far-galaxy.jpg?w=800)
Deep Space
JWST discovers earliest galaxy ever observed
![Concept art of EarthCARE satellite scanning clouds above Earth](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EarthCARE.png?w=800)
Climate Change
The ‘White Dragon’ satellite will keep watch over our clouds
![NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/boeing-starliner.jpg?w=800)
International Space Station
NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel
![Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test mission in November 2021.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spacex-lauch.jpg?w=800)
Private Space Flight
A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
![In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/09/space-metals.jpg?w=800)
Private Space Flight
In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in
![SpaceX EVA suit helmet close up](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/06/suit.jpg?w=800)
Private Space Flight
SpaceX reveals new sleek spacesuits ahead of upcoming historic mission
![The planet Venus is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines with an electron, producing speedy hydrogen atoms (orange) that use CO molecules (blue) as a launchpad to escape.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/06/venus.jpg?w=800)
Science
Why Venus is so dry
![NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/29/mars-samples.png?w=800)
Private Space Flight