Congress wants the International Space Station to keep flying until 2032. Here’s why
Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to...
Lake Coatepeque
Set amid El Salvador’s modern, active volcanic landscape, tranquil blue waters fill a caldera formed by ancient eruptions.
SpaceX springs forward with another Starlink launch from California (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force...
I spoke to the writers behind the trippy new sci-fi novel ‘Detour’: ‘Things don’t need to be 100% correct, but they do have to be believable’
"If Neil deGrasse Tyson read this book, he would not be thrilled."
A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands
Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including launching and deploying satellites,...
Where are all the aliens? Maybe space weather is scrambling their transmissions
We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a...
Germany outlines military space priorities in new strategy
A new German military space policy outlines the ambitions the country has fueled by tens of billions of euros of...
Saturn’s rings will seem to disappear on Nov. 23: Here’s how to catch the illusion
Saturn will briefly lose its bling.
Does the universe have extra dimensions hiding in plain sight?
While the existence of extra dimensions is a cool idea, it's currently not supported by any evidence
Canon 8×20 IS binocular review
Canon’s lightest IS binos provide ample image stabilization and good optical clarity — great for enthusiastic, traveling stargazers.