Space

Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are October’s major attractions. And the month wraps up with a partial solar eclipse visible across Europe and the Middle East.

NASA and United Launch Alliance (ULA) will host a media briefing on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 1 p.m. EDT in advance of the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) technology demonstration. The briefing will be held via WebEx.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks between Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 and is visible until early November. We explore the annual shower in more detail here.

NGC 7331 is a superb spiral galaxy lying in northern Pegasus, one of the brightest visible in the autumn sky.

This detailed mission timeline covers major vehicle and crew activities during the Crew-5 countdown and rendezvous with the International Space Station.

Just 2° northeast of 6th-magnitude 6 Comae Berenices is 9th-magnitude M100. Located some 55 million light-years distant, it is the Virgo Cluster’s brightest spiral galaxy. The galaxy was another find in 1781 by French comet hunter Pierre Méchain, who notified his comet companion Charles Messier. Like M98 and M99, Messier […]

A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four Crew-5 astronauts launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today (Oct. 5), kicking off a roughly 29-hour journey to the orbiting lab.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is counting down for launch Tuesday at Cape Canaveral on a dual spacecraft delivery mission for the commercial telecom satellite operator SES. The Atlas 5 is set to blast off at 5:36 p.m. EDT (2136 GMT) at the opening of a 45-minute launch […]

NASA’s two most famous space telescopes teamed up to image the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts will answer media questions at 11:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 11, about their time aboard the International Space Station. The event takes place prior to their return to Earth later this month.