Space News

Isar Aerospace is set to launch its new Spectrum rocket from Europe's first orbit-capable spaceport facility in Norway.

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. There is also a lot of other stuff there as well. Young stars, gas, dust, and stellar-mass black holes. It's a happening place. It is also surrounded by a v...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's first few hundred thousand years are shrouded in an impenetrable fog. So far, nobody's been able ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy--the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans--have been produced by an international team of astronomers.

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young aboard, America's first two-person spaceflight. Grissom earned the honor as the first person...

This original prop from Steven Spielberg's timeless 1982 film hits the auction block.

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, with its future uncertain, this historic site is at risk.

On March 29, a partial solar eclipse will cause a dark shadow over eastern North America -- and weather satellites will pick it up.

JWST could potentially detect the signature of methyl halide compounds, produced by microbial life in Earth's ocean, on hypothetical hycean exoplanets.