Space

The universe is continuously rippling with gravitational waves, a 15-year survey has reported. Using pulsars as distant beacons and radio telescopes to plumb the galaxy, a massive collaboration of astronomers and physicists has found strong evidence of a gravitational-wave background undulating through the cosmos. A single wave may take years […]

NASA invites media to the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground about 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 20, before the agency’s first asteroid sample collected in space is returned to Earth.

Virgin Galactic flew its first-ever commercial mission today (June 29), sending a crew of four to suborbital space and back.

Europe successfully completed the first hot-fire test of its reusable Prometheus rocket on June 22, a 12-second burn while integrated to the Themis first-stage demonstrator at the ArianeGroup site in Vernon, France. Prometheus and Themis are components of the new ‘Ariane Next’ European launch program, which is focused on developing […]

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently captured stunning images of a structure called the Orion Bar in the Orion Nebula. The large view on the left of the collage was taken using JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam); the top right image used JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI); and the bottom right […]

SpaceX and Elon Musk have released mind-blowing photos from the recent test-firing of the company’s latest Starship prototype.

A cluster of young stars at the heart of the “smiling cat” nebula generates torrents of radiation that ionise surrounding gas, creating a vast reddish-orange nebula.

SpaceX conducted a six-engine static test fire on Monday of the Starship vehicle that will eventually be paired with a Super Heavy booster for the second test flight of the company’s fully-reusable launch system. The firing took place at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in south Texas.

Today, we recognize that the sky is divided into 88 standard constellations with well-defined boundaries, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union. You might be surprised to learn, however, that these were only officially approved 101 years ago. Before 1922, astronomers and authors could create their own constellations using fainter […]

United Launch Alliance has pushed back the debut launch of its new Vulcan Centaur rocket again, to make modifications to the vehicle’s upper stage.