Space

India’s new SSLV rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and you can watch the debut live.

South Korea’s first mission to the moon lifted off at 7:08 p.m. EDT (2308 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch was the second of the day from Florida’s Space Coast, marking the shortest turnaround between launches at Cape Canaveral since 1967.

This complex, car-sized rover remains one of our best tools on the martian surface.

Debris produced by the most spectacular comet outburst ever observed will be visible from Earth later this month even to amateur telescopes. Here is how to look for it.

Two rare phenomena associated with thunderstorms are captured in this expansive vista seen from 4,200 metres above sea level at the Gemini North telescope, overlooking the other observatories atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Blue Origin launched six more people on a quick, 10-minute flight to suborbital space Thursday from West Texas. A popular YouTuber and the first people from Egyptian and Portugal to fly above the internationally-recognized boundary of space were among the commercial passengers.

For the first time, the luminescent nautical phenomenon has been discovered in satellite data and subsequently corroborated by sailors.

China launched a carbon and ecosystem monitoring satellite and two smaller payloads with the country’s 28th launch of 2022 late on Wednesday (Aug. 3).

United Launch Alliance’s next Atlas 5 rocket rolled out to its launch pad Tuesday at Cape Canaveral for a fiery blastoff at dawn Thursday with a U.S. military missile warning satellite.

Named for the constellation in which it appears, the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is the third largest member of the Milky Way’s Local Group of galaxies. Only the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are bigger. M33 lies about 2.7 million light-years away. And like its hefty galactic neighbors, it is […]