The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has long been a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe, unveiling awe-inspiring images and groundbreaking data about galaxies, black holes, and the origins of ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is celebrating 50 years since the building in Washington, D.C., opened to the public and will commemorate this milestone throughout 2026. The museum ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have committed private funding to four ambitious telescope projects that together could reshape modern astronomy. Announced this ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. The most serious accident in manned spaceflight to date shocked the USA and the whole world.

Members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, in October.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times National Guard: President ...

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Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...