United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Centaur 5 upper stage for the Vulcan Certification-1 (Cert-1) flight heads into pressure cell testing. Image: United Launch Alliance
NASA officially selected United Launch Alliance’s Centaur 5 as the upper stage for its Space Launch System rocket starting with the Artemis 4 mission, scheduled to launch no earlier than early 2028.
One of Europe's two Proba-3 spacecraft suffered an anomaly last month, putting the future of the solar eclipse-creating mission in doubt.
The catalog of gravitational waves "heard" by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of spacetime ripples.
The latest JWST images, along with archival images taken before the asteroid was even discovered, combine to refine its trajectory.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) just released its photo of the week. This image, acquired by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, shows the RCW 36 nebula, located about 2,300 light-years away in the Vela Constellation. But to observers, it looks like a cosmic hawk spreading its wings: the dark clouds at the center resembling the hawk's head and body, and the filaments extending to the right and left serving as the wings. And in a nice twist, the image itself was acquired by the High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager-1 (HAWK-1) instrument on the VLT.
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East to begin the Starlink 17-18 mission on Sunday, March 8, 2026. Image: SpaceX
Update March 8, 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 25 Starlink satellites.
A big restructuring of NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.
As Bungie’s extraction shooter welcomes players to Tau Ceti IV, we’ve taken a good look at its hefty collector’s edition.
The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.
"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another."
This Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ is best for observing planets and the moon.
Astronomers gain new key insights from old solar observations.
Are the Nightfox Whisker the best Nightfox night vision binoculars yet?
This Lego Star Wars AT-AT walker only debuted in January 2026 and you can already save 5% on this shelf-sized but still seriously impressive set.
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
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Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay, and you can watch the action live.
Bright Jupiter highlights the Gemini stick-figure twins standing on either side of it. Down below, the Winter Triangle balances on its Sirius point.
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