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I should probably start with a confession for someone who writes about the night sky almost every day: until recently, I had never actually seen the Milky Way properly. Not

The Hubble Space Telescope appears as a small black dot zipping across the surface of the sun. (Image credit: Efrain Morales) Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No,

For centuries, women have gazed at the stars and asked the big questions, often without the recognition or resources their male counterparts have had. Yet despite the odds, they’ve charted

From orbit, Earth often looks more like art than geography. Satellites such as the European Union‘s Copernicus Sentinel missions are designed to turn that beauty into information. Rather than taking

Congress is not on board with President Donald Trump’s deep NASA budget cuts. The White House allocated just $18.8 billion to the space agency — a 24% decrease from the

Saros is one of the best-looking upcoming space games, and not just because it stars the rough and gruff Rahul Kohli. Saros will get in your head. After a thinner-than-desirable

Just before the holidays, SpaceX took a big step toward the next test flight of its Starship megarocket. On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), the company posted a photo on X

Astronomers and scientists love Betelgeuse because it shines so brightly. While most stars appear as tiny points of light, Betelgeuse is large enough, and close enough, that we can study

Celestron NexStar 8SE (Image credit: Celestron) We reckon the Celestron NexStar 8SE is the best motorized telescope out there as it’s great for astrophotography, deep-space observing and it offers stunning

We’re at T-1 month to liftoff of NASA’s next astronaut mission to the moon, if current schedules hold. Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis program, could launch