A redesigned nozzle failed during testing in 2023, pushing back the return to flight to 2024. Another satellite in the Sentinel program, Sentinel-6, was lofted on a SpaceX Falcon 9, and ESA has had to ...

This weekend will bring a striking event for sky watchers, as Jupiter is will be at its biggest and brightest. This is a great opportunity to look up and see one of the brightest objects in the sky.

In the chilly hours of Wednesday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took its record-breaking 24th flight, delivering 24 of the company's Starlink satellites to orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket launched ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel It's the year 2000. We're floating in space ...

SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the performance of the vehicle is pretty incredible. Last Tuesday ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been developing in the Chilean high desert for more than 20 years. He was ...

In 1959, a new breed of Ford launched with an aim toward affordability and fuel efficiency — the Falcon. The first Ford Falcon, at just over 181 inches long, was compact, a stark contrast to ...

This striking new perspective on an icon of the deep sky comes from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has rendered the spiral galaxy that looks like a broad-brimmed Mexican hat both in high ...

But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, the gas giant's seven rings are about to be unobservable for a short time from Earth's vantage. Why? Well, every 13-15 years ...

A photo allegedly showing the Helix Nebula and that was said to have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was circulating online in late November 2024.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Europa Clipper mission Oct. 14. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a multibillion-dollar mission to Saturn ...