Space

China launched a carbon and ecosystem monitoring satellite and two smaller payloads with the country’s 28th launch of 2022 late on Wednesday (Aug. 3).

United Launch Alliance’s next Atlas 5 rocket rolled out to its launch pad Tuesday at Cape Canaveral for a fiery blastoff at dawn Thursday with a U.S. military missile warning satellite.

Named for the constellation in which it appears, the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is the third largest member of the Milky Way’s Local Group of galaxies. Only the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are bigger. M33 lies about 2.7 million light-years away. And like its hefty galactic neighbors, it is […]

A pair of news conferences on Thursday, Aug. 4, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will highlight the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.

Galaxy clusters allow us to study a broad range of rich processes — including magnetism and plasma physics — in environments we can’t recreate in our labs.

Albireo (beta [β] Cygni) is unquestionably the finest colour-contrast double star in the entire heavens, providing an unmissable target on summer nights.

The second of two back-to-back Rocket Lab missions for the National Reconnaissance Office was scrubbed Tuesday due to high winds at the launch site in New Zealand. Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher is awaiting liftoff with a small classified payload for the U.S. government spy satellite agency.

A new approach to mineralogy attests to mineral diversity and could advance scientists’ understandings about life on Earth and other planets.

NASA Television programming on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite is moving from transponder 11 to transponder 15 this month.

Virgin Galactic has acquired land for a new astronaut campus and training facility in New Mexico close to Spaceport America.