Space

Slated to launch on Oct. 12 with the Psyche mission, DSOC will demonstrate technologies enabling the agency to transmit higher data rates from deep space. NASA’s pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment will be the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away as Mars. Launching […]

Get the popular Celestron SkyMaster 15×70 binoculars for $105.99 — suitable for skywatching, as part of the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sale.

Messier 31, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda, is the closest major galaxy to our Solar System and the dominant galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies, larger than our own Milky Way Galaxy.

SpaceX planned a pair of back-to-back Falcon 9 launches from both coasts but upper level winds scrubbed the liftoff from Florida. A Falcon 9 was able to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:43 a.m. PDT (0743 UTC).

The vastness of space is often romanticized in sci-fi tales, with depictions of interstellar journeys and distant galaxies. However, closer to home, we find a more sobering narrative. Our planet’s history is punctuated by violent encounters with rogue space rocks, and every so often, the cosmos makes sure to remind […]

Unlike physical theories describing the other three fundamental forces in physics, the general theory of relativity has only been tested in weak gravity.

SpaceX plans to loft 22 of its Starlink broadband satellites early Monday morning (Oct. 9) on the second half of a launch doubleheader.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Friday and boosted a pair of prototype internet satellites into orbit for Amazon’s Kuiper program, the latest entry in the increasingly competitive space-based broadband market currently dominated by SpaceX.

Most travelers who ventured to see the April 20, 2023, hybrid solar eclipse headed for Western Australia, where a narrow spit of land jutting into the Indian Ocean was grazed by a minute of totality. Fewer ventured to East Timor, where the Sun’s shadow passed across the country from south to […]

Hubble is sharing a brand new galaxy image every day through October 7, 2023! Visit our website daily, or follow along on X, Facebook, and Instagram. NGC 685 takes center stage amid faintly twinkling stars on an inky black background. This galaxy is clearly a barred spiral galaxy with its […]