Space

Fifty-three more of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites rode into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket after midnight Saturday from Cape Canaveral. The reusable Falcon 9 booster completed its 12th successful mission to space, making it the fleet-leader in SpaceX’s inventory. Liftoff occurred at 12:42 a.m. EDT (0442 GMT).

Russia says it used its new Kinzhal hypersonic missile in an attack on Ukraine on Friday, marking its first use in combat.

The LPS-D2 filter is the world’s first filter designed specifically to combat LED light pollution. Ade Ashford took a close look at the data to see how effective it will be.

An all-Russian crew of three cosmonauts launched Friday at 11:55 a.m. EDT (1555 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, heading to orbit on a Soyuz rocket to begin a six-and-a-half month expedition on the International Space Station.

Observers and astroimagers usually think of the magnificent Rosette Nebula as a single deep-sky object. But actually, this combination of a star cluster and nebula has five separate entries in the New General Catalogue: NGC 2237, NGC 2238, NGC 2239, NGC 2244, and NGC 2246. And although they all lie […]

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday in preparation for a final test before its Artemis I Moon mission.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has lifted off for the International Space Station with Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, the first all-Russian career-cosmonaut crew in more than 20 years.

Ade Ashford explores the history of lens making to establish the lineage of TSOptics’ versatile grab-and-go 60mm, f/6 photo-visual telescope.

NASA will roll the Space Launch System, a heavy-duty rocket designed to send astronauts to the moon, out of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday evening. A crawler-transporter originally built more than 50 years ago for the Apollo program will haul the towering rocket […]

Space weather can affect satellites in a number of different ways, from frying electronics to increasing drag in the atmosphere.