Space

M61 was a problem for Charles Messier from the start. He first encountered the spiral galaxy May 5, 1779, when he mistook it for a nearby comet whose path he had been tracking. He repeated this error the following night and then again on the 11th before he finally noticed […]

The European Space Observatory (ESO) has released an image of a dead star’s ‘ghost’ in deep space just in time for Halloween.

Unlike House of the Dragon, the bright heat from this celestial monster is nothing to be feared. In fact, it’s a super helpful tool that helps gauge the expansion of the universe.

SpaceX fired up 27 engines on a Falcon Heavy rocket Thursday night at Kennedy Space Center, sending a rumble across the spaceport in a hold-down test-firing before a launch next week for the U.S. Space Force.

Hubble has just grabbed a brilliant new photo of a cosmic ‘keyhole’ in a stellar nursery

SpaceX fired a Falcon 9 rocket off a launching stand in California at sunset Thursday, producing a twilight sky show visible as far away as Texas as the mission delivered 53 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit.

Find ghostly galaxies, the ruddy Red Planet, and the First Quarter Moon in the sky from October 28 to November 4.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, Nov. 3, to discuss the status of its Artemis I flight test that will launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The uncrewed mission will send the Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon […]

NASA scientists are preparing to paint the most detailed picture to date of the atmosphere of Venus when the aptly named DAVINCI mission drops a probe to the planet’s surface.

As active satellites continue to pile up, so does the risk of collisions. If that happens, it could cause serious turmoil for astronomers and the public.