Space

These are the techniques, times and tools you’ll need to photograph the moon using a camera.

M22, M13, Omega Centauri and other densely-populated globular clusters get most of the attention, but even sparsely-populated globulars provide rich fodder for the Hubble Space Telescope.

The private Inspiration4 astronauts on SpaceX’s first all-civilian spaceflight star in a new Netflix documentary on their historic flight.

Venus and the bright star Spica will shine in the evening sky tonight (Sept. 5). Mercury is visible, too.

Two Russian spacewalkers connected a new laboratory module to the International Space Station’s power grid Friday, routing and plugging in eight cables to tap into electricity generated by NASA’s solar power system.

The spectacular dust lane of the galaxy Centaurus A is on full display in this gorgeous image snapped by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dark branches of dust that appear draped across the galaxy’s inner […]

Students participating with the Nebraska 4-H will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

In this week’s Night Sky column, we provide a potpourri of factoids concerning some of the more prominent objects appearing in the summertime sky.

The first test flight of Firefly Aerospace’s privately-developed Alpha small satellite launcher ended in a fiery explosion soon after liftoff Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

With the skies mostly dark and moonless, September 3 to 10 is a great time for fainter targets such as comets, asteroids, and nebulae.