Space

NASA has selected a new mission to help humanity better understand Earth’s dynamic atmosphere – specifically, ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. The PolSIR instrument – short for Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer – will study such ice clouds to determine how and why they […]

This $500 price drop is the biggest saving on the legendary Nikon D850 we’ve seen all year.

Melotte III is a sprawling open cluster that can be spotted with the naked eye tucked away in far north-west of Coma Berenices.

Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. Dave’s weekly video series will cover all the latest sky events, scientific results, overviews of cosmic mysteries, and more! This week, we’re talking about dark nebulae — […]

The next space-themed Lego set is actually two spacecraft in one, Technic-ally speaking. The Lego Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance set recreates the wheeled explorer and its Ingenuity helicopter.

Four commercial space fliers who launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Axiom’s second private astronaut mission Sunday arrived at the International Space Station on a SpaceX crew capsule Monday to start an eight-day stay full of scientific experiments, student outreach events, and sightseeing.

The next time you fly, be sure to secure a window seat opposite the Sun — and pray for clouds. Under the right conditions, you just might see a glorious atmospheric phenomenon known as, well, the glory. The glory is an optical effect that appears as a series of concentric […]

The first Lunar “Lamb-bassador” checks up on Orion, the craft behind his trip to the moon.

Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with more time in space than any other American, will rocket into orbit for the fourth time Sunday, riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher from Florida with a fare-paying investor and private pilot, and the first two Saudi Arabian astronauts to fly to the International […]

SpaceX is launching the second all-private mission to the International Space Station today (May 21) and if you’re hoping to follow it online, you need to know when it actually lifts off.