Space

‘Star Wars’ Day started a bit early on Fortnite. The battle royale game lets you play as Anakin Skywalker or Padmé Amidala for most of May, with some special Jedi trainers.

On the mission’s third launch attempt, SpaceX sent a Falcon Heavy rocket aloft at 8:26 p.m. EDT Sunday (0026 UTC Monday) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The nearly five-hour mission to a near-geosynchronous orbit carried the first satellite for the ViaSat 3 space-based internet network, along with two […]

The Moon has a busy month: After occulting Jupiter in mid-May, our satellite slides into Earth’s shadow for a deep penumbral lunar eclipse.

From my viewpoint in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia, the solar eclipse’s totality brought a colossal corona and a dramatic drifting diamond ring.

It’s almost Star Wars day, and that means Lego is planning an event filled with free gifts, new sets and discounts.

A stuck radar boom threatens a critical element of the Juice mission, but engineers optimistic about a fix.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with a pair of O3b internet satellites for SES Friday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but a last-minute abort for a Falcon Heavy mission later in the night prevented the company from pulling off a launch doubleheader.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying three satellites aborted an attempted launch at the last minute late Friday (April 28).

SpaceX says engineers completed checks of the Falcon Heavy rocket, its satellite payloads, and ground systems at the Kennedy Space Center after a lightning strike on the launch pad’s tower Thursday night, part of a wave of severe weather that forced officials to delay the launch attempt.

Our Moon waxes to Full while planets and stars wheel overhead from April 28 to May 5.