Space

A navigation system glitch on NASA’s MAVEN orbiter at Mars earlier this year has hobbled science.

Richard Deighton reviews a compact, high-performance, multi-purpose mount that comes in all the colours of the rainbow.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft parachuted to a “picture perfect” landing in southern New Mexico Wednesday, capping a six-day test flight to the International Space Station that NASA’s commercial crew program manager said paves the way for the next Starliner mission to carry astronauts.

The third-largest constellation in the sky, Ursa Major, contains seven Messier objects. Five are galaxies. The least observed of these — based on the number of books and articles featuring it — is M109, also known as NGC 3992. Messier’s original catalog topped out at 103, but today, astronomers recognize […]

NASA will announce at 2 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. CDT) Wednesday, June 1, the company, or companies, selected to move forward in developing the next generation of spacesuits for Artemis missions at the Moon and the International Space Station during an event at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

What if we thought of our ancestors as a form of alien life?

During the thirty-sixth close approach of the gas giant planet Jupiter by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, it snapped a raw image of tumultuous clouds in the South Temperate Belt.

Researchers still struggle to fully explain the moon illusion, a mystery you can see with the naked eye as a Full Moon rises.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 27, to discuss the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I […]

Elon Musk said he believes that the right to bear arms is necessary to guard against tyranny, but he called for stricter background checks on gun sales.