Space

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti headed outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk Thursday to continue outfitting a European robotic arm and deploy 10 nanosatellites for radio technology experiments.

The billions of stars in our home galaxy present artists with infinite possibilities for transporting us to other worlds.

NASA’s telescope-carrying jet has been damaged in a storm in Christchurch, New Zealand.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster with no markings rolled by the VAB recently. Note the driver of the transporter assisting with his foot.

Researchers fish out a microquasar that’s leading to unusual particle acceleration.

NASA will provide live coverage of a spacewalk on Thursday, July 21, by a Russian cosmonaut and an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut to continue outfitting the European robotic arm on the International Space Station’s Nauka laboratory.

Scientists who study exoplanets explain how the James Webb Space Telescope will study exoplanet atmospheres.

Rocket Lab’s next mission for the National Reconnaissance Office — the second of two back-to-back launches for the U.S. spy satellite agency — has been postponed to complete a software update on the classified payload, the NRO said Monday.

The dwarf planet reaches opposition the night of July 19/20. Here’s what you need to know to spot it.

New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.