Space

One of the two wings holding three of the James Webb Space Telescope’s gold-coated mirror segments folded into place Friday, setting the stage for positioning of the other wing Saturday to complete the nearly $10 billion observatory’s major deployments.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on its way to L2 to study the universe.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and deployed 49 more Starlink internet satellites, blazing a new trail to orbit on the first of as many as seven space missions planned from Florida in January.

The Moon grows brighter as planetary action abounds from January 7 to 14.

NASA will provide live coverage and host a media briefing Saturday, Jan. 8, for the conclusion of the James Webb Space Telescope’s major spacecraft deployments.

Learn all about the northern lights, including the science behind their colors, the display’s ancient history and how to see the phenomenon.

The Flame Nebula in Orion, photobombed by the Horsehead Nebula, blazes in a newly processed image captured by the SuperCam instrument at the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment.

SpaceX’s first launch of 2022 is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, when a Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off with 49 more Starlink internet satellites. Launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is set for 4:49 p.m. EST (2149 GMT), and the Falcon 9 will track southeast […]

Even though time has existed since the beginning of, well, time, it was still necessary to invent it.

The International Space Station is about to get its first sales showroom. Uplift Aerospace has announced the upcoming launch of its “Constellation Vault.”