Space

SpaceX’s next launch will deploy a telecom satellite for Egypt’s Nilesat after liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday afternoon from Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 is scheduled launch with the Nilesat 301 telecom payload during a window opening at 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 GMT).

NGC 7000 looks as big as a continent — the continent of North America, to be exact. This emission nebula lies near Deneb in the tail of Cygnus. It is 2° by 12/3° across, or 10 times the area of the Full Moon. William Herschel discovered it, but it was […]

NASA is inviting media to see a technology that could one day help land humans on Mars after it is inflated for the final time on Earth before its spaceflight demonstration later this year.

An international team of astronomers have discovered a second persistently active fast radio burst, posing questions about the nature of the mysterious phenomena.

Messier 13 (NGC 6205) in Hercules is another of those truly celebrated deep-sky objects like the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy.

A spare satellite for Globalstar’s data relay and messaging constellation will launch from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 rocket later this month, multiple sources said, in a previously-undisclosed mission on SpaceX’s schedule.

If you’re new to observing, you don’t need to buy the most expensive telescope — just the one you’ll use the most.

Nik Szymanek wraps up his deep dive into the capabilities of the new imaging edition of Software Bisque’s The Sky by taking the program on several full-blown imaging runs.

NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket rolled out to its launch pad early Monday at the Kennedy Space Center for another attempt later this month to fully load it with super-cold propellants, the culmination of a countdown rehearsal officials aim to complete before moving forward with launch later this […]

Among the planetary nebulae in the high northern heavens, M97, the Owl Nebula, is the most famous. Pierre Méchain discovered it on Feb. 16, 1781, about 2.5° southeast of Merak (Beta [β] Ursae Majoris), noting it was difficult to see with crosshairs illuminated. Messier agreed, recording, “its light is faint.” […]