Space

On June 6, 1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA’s space endurance record at the time. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

China’s Shenzhou 14 spacecraft glided to an automated docking at the Tiangong space station Sunday, hours after launching with three astronauts to begin a six-month mission that will see the outpost triple in size with the arrival of two new 20-ton research modules.

Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center plan to start rolling NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket to its launch pad for testing just after midnight Monday (June 6), and you can watch it live.

Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket propelled six people to an altitude of more than 60 miles over West Texas Saturday, including the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space. The company has now flown five missions carrying 25 people to suborbital space, and aims to nearly double that figure by […]

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:22 a.m. EDT Friday, June 10, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station.

Blue Origin will launch 6 passengers on the NS-21 space tourism mission on June 4, 2022. Here are live updates of the launch.

This latest flip-mirror star diagonal from Baader Planetarium offers high-quality views for imagers who want to use a guiding eyepiece, as well as a revolutionary third port for off-axis autoguiding, writes Steve Ringwood.

Russia’s Progress MS-20 cargo freighter launched Friday on a fast-track, three-and-a-half hour rendezvous with the International Space Station to deliver around three tons of fuel, food, and supplies for the lab’s seven-person crew. Liftoff from Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket occurred at 5:32 a.m. EDT (0932 GMT) and will be […]

The weather imagery is surprisingly useful as astronomical data.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. CDT Tuesday, June 7, to discuss research about intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States and their effects on Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.