Space

Nestled between the two brightest stars in Canes Venatici lies M94, a beautiful spiral galaxy 16 million light-years distant. Pierre Méchain discovered M94 on March 22, 1781, and communicated its position to Charles Messier. Messier saw a “nebula” with a bright center surrounded by a condensed halo. But William Parsons, […]

Rocket Lab will launch a U.S. spy satellite in the wee hours of Tuesday morning (Aug. 2), and you can watch the action live.

A South Korean spacecraft set for launch to the moon next week from Cape Canaveral has been loaded with the fuel it needs to maneuver into a low-altitude lunar orbit for image-taking and scientific observations.

NASA Administrator Statement on Chinese Space Debris

A new time-lapse video from astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy shows the moon’s dance, or libration, over a year of full moons.

The 22-ton core stage of a Chinese rocket is expected to fall back to Earth some time Saturday, the third time in two years China has allowed such a large booster to re-enter the atmosphere uncontrolled. The unguided re-entry poses a low but avoidable risk to the world’s population, space […]

NASA has completed the next steps in the Artemis 1 mission — installing the data-gathering mannequin Commander Moonikin Campos inside the Orion spacecraft.

Steve Ringwood reviews a tabletop beauty with a healthy aperture that is also just as home on a tripod, and has Go-To to boot.

The Southern Delta Aquariids peak under a New Moon as Saturn gears up for opposition from July 29 to August 5.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released this statement Thursday following approval by the U.S. Congress for the NASA Authorization Act of 2022, which is part of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act of 2022.