Space

August will bring two opportunities to look skyward as a solar eclipse and the annual Perseid meteor shower…

Elon Musk says Starship Flight 13 recovery ‘not looking good’ despite successful splashdown SpaceX‘s attempt to recover its…

Nearly 48 years after its launch, NASA engineers have found a way to keep Voyager 2’s mission going…

Voyager 2 left Cape Canaveral at 14:29:44 UTC on 20 August 1977. Its Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket supplied the…

The Moon crosses in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse at Lake Monroe on April…

Early risers will catch a spectacular sight in the predawn hours of Aug. 9, as the slender crescent…

In January 1986, Voyager 2 swept past Uranus and gathered the only close-up measurements humanity has ever taken…

The Lion’s Gate Portal is open! The Lion’s Gate Portal is an astrological term describing the alignment of…

Astronomers hunt black holes at the center of a galaxy, not its edge, because that is where the…

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 8) from California’s scenic central…

WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman and the Canadian Space Agency said this week they will adapt what they had…

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth’s…

Want to see a solar eclipse and a meteor shower in one day? US astronomer reveals all you should know to enjoy the stargazing event of the year