Space

SpaceX called off a Falcon 9 launch attempt Thursday less than a minute before liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the company’s first terminal countdown abort in more than 18 months for reasons other than bad weather or range safety.

Comets, asteroids, galaxies, and more await you in the sky from July 22 to 29.

Ahead of the Artemis I flight test, NASA is inviting media to its Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday, Aug. 5, for a detailed mission briefing and a behind-the-scenes look at facilities that will enable a long-term human presence at the Moon.

Pioneering new telescope surveys that use only the 10 minutes before sunrise and after sunset are searching for eccentric asteroids. They’re finding some strange things.

The Cat’s Eye Nebula’s present-day popularity owes much to the Hubble Space Telescope’s dramatic portraits, though it was famous well over a century before Hubble was even conceived.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti headed outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk Thursday to continue outfitting a European robotic arm and deploy 10 nanosatellites for radio technology experiments.

The billions of stars in our home galaxy present artists with infinite possibilities for transporting us to other worlds.

NASA’s telescope-carrying jet has been damaged in a storm in Christchurch, New Zealand.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster with no markings rolled by the VAB recently. Note the driver of the transporter assisting with his foot.

Researchers fish out a microquasar that’s leading to unusual particle acceleration.