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
![Closeup of vent horizon around M87, a supermassive black hole and the first black hole image](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/26/m87-first-black-hole-image-analysis.jpg?w=763)
Black Holes
This supermassive black hole sucks big time
![SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket readying for launch at night](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/25/My-project-2023-04-25T173910.770.jpg?w=800)
Private Space Flight
Japan’s ispace lunar lander appears to have crashed into the moon
![engineers working on voyager 2](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/10/voyager.png?w=800)
Ask Us Anything
How is Voyager’s vintage technology still flying?
![SpaceX's Starship and its booster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20/starship.jpg?w=800)
Private Space Flight
Watch SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket explode
![Person in a dark room watering a houseplant with a beam of light. Illustrated.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/28/Garden_17_1.jpg?w=800)
How to grow plants in the dark
![Astronaut Buzz Aldrin photographed on the moon during Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/07/337294main_pg62_as11-40-5903_full-scaled-e1680901415994.jpeg?w=620)
Conservation
Lunar laws could protect the moon from humanity
![Google Sycamore processor for quantum computer hanging from a server room with gold and blue wires](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/06/google-sycamore-quantum-computer-processor.jpg?w=718)
Black Holes
Quantum computers can’t teleport things—yet
![Rocket detaching from Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 jet](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/04/Virgin-Orbit-88.jpg?w=840)
Private Space Flight
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy after historic launch failure
![A DIY-rocket club’s risky dream of launching a human to the edge of space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/27/PopSci-3-1_web.jpg?w=800)
A DIY-rocket club’s risky dream of launching a human to the edge of space
![Cube satellite with Kapton drag sail](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/17/satellite-shows-a-low.jpg?w=800)
Private Space Flight
College students built a satellite with AA batteries and a $20 microprocessor
![NASA Axios spacesuit helmet with a pulled-back visor with better visibility on the moon](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/15/nasa-axiom-new-spacesuit-artemis-helmet.jpg?w=644)
International Space Station