Space

Ideally suited to astrophotographers, the Canon EOS R8 is a full-frame, reasonably priced mirrorless that performs well when shooting the stars.

Stars and their planets are typically named with numbers and letters from the surveys that discovered them. But those titles can seem nonintuitive and confusing to the public. Now, a set of 20 exoplanetary systems have been awarded proper names, thanks to teams of students, teachers, and amateur and professional […]

NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Thursday, June 22, for station upgrades and retrieval of equipment.

A Swedish astronaut will take a seat on the Axiom-3 space mission, taking a commercial fast-track to the International Space Station to become a role-model for future astronauts and scientists.

The Zwicky Transient Facility finds a supernova split into multiple images by the gravity of a foreground galaxy in a remarkable example of strong gravitational lensing.

Since the transit method relies on direct line of sight to our planet, and exoplanets orbit with random orientations, how many exoplanets are estimated to be uncounted using this method? Edward DeanMerritt Island, Florida This is a really important correction we have to make when trying to calculate what fraction […]

When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible.

SpaceX is counting down to a Father’s Day launch from Cape Canaveral of a Falcon 9 rocket set to haul into orbit a European-built communications satellite, the centerpiece of a nearly $550 million project to provide internet service to rural Indonesia. Liftoff is scheduled during a nearly three-hour launch window […]

The crescent moon joins Mars, Venus and some of the brightest stars to kick off the summer 2024 skywatching season.

Applying a bit of artistic license, colour was added to black-and-white Mars panoramas to produce an artistic rendering of the red planet as seen in the morning and afternoon on the slopes of Mount Sharp.