Space

A dwarf irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the most stunning deep-sky treasures of the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the unaided eye as a soft glow spanning 9° by 11° of sky across portions of Mensa and Dorado. Its name, along with that […]

Heads of the world’s major space agencies presented their big plans for the coming years at a major congress in Paris, while underlining the serious challenges that could affect space and humanity.

Bad weather kept SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on the ground again Friday night at Cape Canaveral, the fourth night in a row weather conditions prevented liftoff. SpaceX will try again at 8:43 p.m. EDT (0043 GMT Sunday) to launch the next 54 Starlink internet satellites, but there’s just a 30% […]

NASA is seeking proposals for sustainable lunar lander development and demonstration as the agency works toward a regular cadence of Moon landings.

SpaceX will send another big batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on Saturday night (Sept. 17) — and bring the first stage of a rocket back to Earth.

Rocket Lab launched its 30th mission at 4:38 p.m. EDT (2038 GMT) Thursday from New Zealand. The payload on-board Rocket Lab’s small-class Electron launcher was the StriX 1 radar remote sensing satellite for the Japanese company Synspective.

Neptune reaches opposition and the waning Moon offers us increasing dark-sky windows as we welcome the autumnal equinox from September 16 to 23.

The Canon EOS R5 looks to bring full-frame mirrorless technology to the first-class professional market. Has it succeeded?

Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do … and it is unclear why.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life on Mars.