Space

The moon commences its monthly tour of the planets by calling in on Saturn on Friday night. The duo will be close enough to share the view with a pair of binoculars.

Europe’s first Vega-C rocket launched at 9:13 a.m. EDT (1313 GMT) Wednesday from the Guiana Space Center in South America. The rocket debuted upgraded solid-fueled motors and a larger payload compartment to haul bigger satellites to space. The maiden Vega-C flight carried seven small spacecraft into orbit.

A black hole on a list of the best deep-sky targets? That sounds like an oxymoron! But for the observer who likes to track down the unusual, this is an ideal target. In a telescope, Cygnus X-1 looks like another faint star among many — and to be honest, this […]

For the 10th consecutive year, the Partnership for Public Service has ranked NASA the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government among large agencies.

Swoop in soon to save $18 off the iconic space symbol that houses our generation’s space explorers.

The seemingly three-dimensional “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula showcases Webb’s capabilities to peer through obscuring dust and shed new light on how stars form.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first image of Carina Nebula shows an iconic star-forming cloud of gas and dust 7,600 light-years away, revealing previously unseen vistas of young stars thanks to the new observatory’s sharp-eyed infrared vision.

About 75 percent of Americans believe in extraterrestrials, and encounter stories are scattered throughout history. But our attitude towards aliens has evolved in recent years.

El amanecer de una nueva era en la astronomía ha comenzado mientras el mundo ve por primera vez las capacidades completas del telescopio espacial James Webb de la NASA, en asociación con la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Agencia Espacial Canadiense (CSA, por sus […]

Rocket Lab will launch a U.S. spy satellite to orbit early Wednesday morning (July 13), and you can watch the action live.