Space

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the “Whirlpool Galaxy,” also known as Messier…

The space industry is rapidly expanding. About 20,000 satellites already circle the Earth, a number that could reach…

Rockets are, infamously, a real pain in the butt. Our old friend physics forces rockets to be built…

Rockets are launching to space on a near-daily basis these days, but short of livestreaming a liftoff from…

Reentry and orbital-manufacturing provider Varda Space Industries is operating two spacecraft in orbit right now, with another expected…

In a milestone achievement, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for most miles driven on a…

Evidence of water ice at Mars’s equator has been detected by the Mars Express spacecraft currently in orbit…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just broke the record for the farthest distance traveled by any vehicle on another…

NASA’s SpaceX 35th commercial resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket…

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a planet orbiting a star 60 lightyears away,…

Among the strangest signals that astronomers can detect emerging from deep space are fast radio bursts, mysterious bursts…

JWST’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam) image of the sky around the origin of the fast radio burst. The inset…

On this day in space! Oct. 13, 1773: Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy before we ever knew it was a galaxy