Space

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana Tuesday, after a 16-day journey at sea.

Polish up your night sky images with our round-up of the best photo editing apps for astrophotography.

Ground teams are stepping through testing of three small CubeSats launched with the Landsat 9 remote sensing satellite last month, preparing the small spacecraft for exoplanet observations and communications experiments. NASA says engineers have not established contact with another CubeSat designed for space weather research.

Why do Saturn’s rings appear perfect, without blemish or irregularity, if they are composed of particles that range from as large as a house next to grains of sand? George Thomas Holtsnider Bremerton, Washington Saturn’s rings are a very orderly system. In panoramic images, they appear to be a generally […]

With the best binoculars you can spend your days observing wildlife, and your evenings gazing at the night sky

With autumn beckoning, our lengthening nights will thankfully soon be blessed again with twilight-free skies. Provided you’re observing from a site free from major light-pollution, you’ll enjoy getting reacquainted with the multitude of deep-sky delights that are on show now and throughout the autumn. Here’s five great targets to get […]

On Oct. 10, 1967, the international Outer Space Treaty was ratified. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space series.

The launch of a solid-fueled Japanese Epsilon rocket with nine small satellites, originally scheduled to blastoff last week, has been grounded until after the flight of a larger H-2A launcher later this month, Japan’s space agency said Friday.

Members of the media may now register their interest in attending the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the premier space science observatory for the next decade.

Read live updates of William Shatner’s launch into space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spacecraft on Oct. 12, 2021.