Space

NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a live broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA has released which celestial objects the first science images from the James Webb Space Telescope will show.

Charles Messier first noted the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24) on June 20, 1764. He subsequently recalled it as a “large nebulosity in which there are several stars of different magnitudes: the light which is diffused over this cluster is divided into several parts.” Although it could not be mistaken […]

Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic announced a deal Wednesday (July 6) to build a new set of carrier planes.

These delicate yet fast-moving filaments of gas belong to a supernova remnant designated as 1E 0102.2-7219, which resulted from the destruction of a massive star long ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 200,000 light years away.

Virgin Orbit’s air-launched rocket carried seven small CubeSats into orbit on the company’s first nighttime mission late Friday night off the coast of California, helping clear the way for teams to base the next Virgin Orbit launch from the United Kingdom later this year.

Johann Elbert Bode logged this particular object 47th (in order of right ascension) in the Toucan in his 1801 catalog of stars, although he didn’t observe it himself. He instead picked it up from Nicolas Louis de Lacaille’s catalog. At magnitude 4.1, 47 Tucanae is visible to the naked eye. […]

NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE moon probe is back in touch with its handlers, ending a short but spooky silent period.

The galaxy NGC 3256 is seen here in the aftermath of a major galaxy merger.

A pair of lunar craters recently excavated when a rocket slammed into the Moon may hint at the nature of the human-made impactor responsible.