Space

Longer autumnal nights are taking over from more balmy late-summer evening. Behold the grand appearance in September’s late-evening southern sky of the Great Square of Pegasus

Astronomy can be a lonely activity, with you and your telescope out under the stars. But for decades now, astronomy enthusiasts have also gone out of their way to cluster together at so-called star parties. Observing together under the night sky, sharing enthusiasm and discoveries, listening to talks by experts […]

Celia Rose Gooding reflects on her “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” role as a young Lt. Nyota Uhura in this exclusive excerpt from “Star Trek Explorer” magazine.

ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket supporting the NROL-107 mission for the Silentbarker program launched Sunday, Sept. 10 at 8:47 a.m. EDT (1247 UTC) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Felix & Paul Studios announces the release of the VR space trilogy, “Space Explorers: Blue Marble”

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites at 11:12 p.m. EDT on Sept. 8 (0312 UTC on Sept. 9) from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The space shuttle era was a time of many firsts for space exploration. Most prominently, it marked the regular usage of the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into low Earth orbit. In its 30-year history since beginning in 1981, the Space Shuttle Program’s fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, […]

The United States Space Force has unveiled a concise new mission statement after the service’s top officer criticized the previous statement as ‘long and cumbersome.’

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket made its way back to the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday morning for a mission carrying national security mission payloads, collectively codenamed Silentbarker. The 45th Weather Squadron’s launch weather forecast shows conditions are 85 percent […]

This near-infrared and visible image shows the galaxy M89 as viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide field and Planetary Camera 2. The 2019 image captures M89’s bright central nucleus and was taken to further understand how elliptical galaxies like M89 form, as well as to bolster evidence for a […]