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The bridge round raised by NanoRacks will accelerate development of a commercial airlock module the company plans to install on the space station in 2019. SYDNEY — NanoRacks announced Oct. 3 that it had raised an undisclosed amount to support development of a commercial airlock module  for the International Space Station. NanoRacks said that Space Angels […]

Cmdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) goes on a scientifically implausible spacewalk in Star Trek: Discovery. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. I’ve been alive for 44 years, and I’ve been watching Star Trek for 44 years. I was a baby sitting […]

Artist’s illustration of SpaceX BFR spaceships on the Martian surface. You don’t have to lie when talking to your kids about SpaceX’s BFR Mars-colonization architecture . Yes, BFR stands for “Big F—ing Rocket.” But there’s also a family-friendly variant of the acronym, and it’s coming into wider and wider use — as evidenced by SpaceX […]

The Skywalker Twins Credit: J. Kempin/Getty During New York Comic Con 2017, the Skywalker Twins visit the event. A Unique Character Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Playing a twist on the storm trooper, a comic con fan stays patriotic on Day 1 of the 2017 New York City Comic Con. Fists Up Credit: Steven A. Henry/FilmMagic […]

It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, and now we’ve got it! Behold: the Lego UCS Millennium Falcon . The Space.com team is full of “Star Wars” fans, but even we were left speechless when Lego announced this summer that its largest set ever would star the most iconic ship from […]

The Museum of the Moon art installation will be open in New York City Oct. 6-8. NEW YORK — A new touring art display featuring a gigantic, glowing model of the moon has come to New York City.  For this weekend only (Oct. 6-8), New Yorkers can see the moon on display at the Classic Car […]

Warning: This review contains spoilers for “Blade Runner 2049.” When I saw the word “Atari” eerily glowing on a building in the devastated Los Angeles of “Blade Runner 2049,” I knew everything was going to be just fine. The long-awaited sequel to 1982’s “Blade Runner” delivers another punch to the gut while addressing robot rights. […]

Miguel Claro recently sent Space.com this beautiful image of the moon and Earthshine taken from Almada, Portugal on Feb. 1, 2014. “I could see the night side of the moon very well illuminated by the Earth reflected light, like if it was full moon,” Claro wrote Space.com in an email. “This impressive phenomenon known as […]

This image captures the dazzling Milky Way and a Perseid meteor as it flies over the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile in August 2010. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every summer and is set to peak on August 12 this year. The skies are lighting up with meteor showers this month and […]

Alexander Krivenyshev of WorldTimeZone.com captured this view of the International Space Station transiting the face of the nearly full moon from Edgewater, New Jersey, on Oct. 4, 2017. The International Space Station (ISS) crosses the face of the nearly full moon in a gorgeous composite image snapped by astrophotographer Alexander Krivenyshev. Krivenyshev, president of WorldTimeZone.com, […]

This thermal image of Phobos combines infrared and visible-light imagery taken by the THEMIS camera on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter on Sept. 29, 2017. After 16 years of orbiting the Red Planet, NASA’s record-breaking Mars Odyssey spacecraft has captured its first photos of the Martian moon Phobos .  Mars Odyssey launched in 2001 and is […]

An artist’s impression of Earth’s moon shows lavas erupting, venting gases and producing a visible atmosphere. Earth’s moon doesn’t have much of an atmosphere today. However, it may have had a more prominent atmosphere 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, when volcanic eruptions spewed giant clouds of gas above the lunar surface, a new […]

Sky map showing the location of Comet C/2017 O1 ASAS-SN on the night of Oct. 6, 2017, as seen from New York City. A newfound comet is putting on a show in the night sky now, and you should be able to see it with a pair of binoculars. The comet C/2017 O1 ASAS-SN might […]