Space

The Coalsack Nebula is the most famous naked-eye dark nebula in the entire sky. Located in the Southern Hemisphere next to the Southern Cross, the shadowy nebulosity looks like a large void (5° by 7°) in the bright, flowing stream of the Milky Way. That’s more than large enough to […]

NASA to Host National Space Council Meeting at Johnson Space Center

The full moon of Saturday (Sept. 10) also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.

A powerful Eutelsat commercial communications satellite launched Wednesday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana, heading into orbit on a mission expected to last more than 15 years to provide broadband connectivity to rural households, ships, and airplane passengers across Europe.

With the right equipment and planning you can enjoy beautiful vistas all year round.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

An Ariane 5 rocket is set for launch at 5:45 p.m. EDT (2145 GMT) Wednesday from Kourou, French Guiana, with a powerhouse European broadband satellite owned by Eutelsat and built by Thales Alenia Space. The Eutelsat Konnect VHTS satellite will beam internet connectivity across Europe for fixed broadband consumers and […]

Earendel started shining just 900 million years after the Big Bang, and it is only observable because of an extraordinary cosmic coincidence.

Venus is being hammered by wild space weather this week after a giant sunspot, not visible from Earth, expelled an enormous plasma burst toward the scorching-hot planet.