Space

NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 28, to discuss the latest results from the agency’s Juno spacecraft.

SpaceX’s Endurance spacecraft has arrived at the hangar, ready for launch.

Nanoracks announced Oct. 21 it is teaming with Lockheed Martin to develop a commercial crewed space station named Starlab that officials said could reach initial operational capability by 2027.

Astronomers find a white dwarf with a presumed Jupiter analog, evidence at least some planets can survive a star’s transition to red giant and white dwarf.

A European Ariane 5 rocket fired into space Saturday night from French Guiana with a commercial broadband satellite for SES and a French military telecom craft, setting a new payload mass record for geostationary transfer orbit on the final Ariane 5 flight before launch of the James Webb Space Telescope […]

Apple TV+’s new sci-fi series “Invasion” follows people around the world during an alien attack. Here’s our first look and interview.

Mercury reaches greatest elongation west of the Sun on 25 October, providing an opportunity to observe the elusive innermost planet’s best showing of the year before sunrise.

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, said Friday the company’s huge new Starship rocket may be ready for its first orbital test launch from South Texas as soon as November, but the schedule comes with two big uncertainties that could push the launch to next year.

Media accreditation is open for the upcoming launch of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will measure polarized X-rays from exotic cosmic objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, to better understand these types of phenomena and extreme environments.

On October 23, 2007, the space shuttle Discovery launched the Harmony module to the International Space Station. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space series.