Watch a time-lapse video of yesterday’s incredible annular solar eclipse.

I showed some of my neighbours the eclipse as I took photos, and here it is for those who missed it, or wanted to see it the easier/safer way (second hand using indirect viewing). -The lens flare underneath, on the roof, blows me away. -A couple sunspots visible in this one. -I think a bird [...]

Join Wired Science for some live feeds of the annular solar eclipse, which will be visible today over eastern Asia and western North America.

Check out Wired’s website this weekend for all your space needs: the SpaceX launch on Saturday, May 19, and an annular solar eclipse in Sunday, May 20.

Spacecraft designers look at blueprints for a real-world version of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise.

Wired’s spaceflight experts talk about the impact that SpaceX’s upcoming launch to the International Space Station will have.

This is part of a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here. We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space. On May 19, if all goes well, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lift off the launchpad, bringing the Dragon [...]

Wired talks to Commercial Spaceflight Federation president and former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria about the upcoming SpaceX launch.

Space historian David S.F. Portree talks to Wired about SpaceX’s upcoming launch to the International Space Station.

A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle.

This is a fun and page-turning read about eugenics, institutionalized child abuse, and interstellar genocide. Humanity is at war with a distance race of aliens (called “Buggers”) and for some reason, the adults are unable to discover the be…

A NASA engineer talks to Wired about SpaceX’s upcoming launch to the International Space Station.

The U.S. is in danger of losing its ability to monitor Earth from space. In this gallery we take a look at some of the amazing images and data that Earth-observing satellites have given us.

In our fourth Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to do-it-yourself spacecraft builder Kristian von Bengtson about the upcoming SpaceX launch.

Four dead planetary systems, each lit by the burned-out core of a star that once resembled the sun, provide a harrowing forecast for Earth’s eventual demise.

In our third Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to policy analyst Linda Billings about the upcoming SpaceX launch.

Wired’s Q&A with explorer and robotics engineer Bill Stone on the upcoming historic SpaceX flight.

A sun-watching space satellite has recorded a video of a binary star system exploding into space as a nova.

Wired Science is launching Open Space, a new portal to the world of commercial and private space ventures. The future of space travel, exploration and exploitation looks very different from the past. The new space race has a far more diverse list of entrants, with the number of new commercial companies swamping government agencies like NASA and giants like Lockheed Martin. To help you make sense of this new spacescape, we will consolidate commercial and private space coverage from around Wired.com as well as the best from around the web on Open Space.

SpaceX’s upcoming launch of the Dragon spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station is finally happening. Probably.

Originally, SpaceX thought this flight could take place in 2010, but that was later changed to the summer of 2011 and then the fall and winter. This year alone the launch date slipped from Feb. 7 to April 30, and then March 7. Such delays are inevitable in the complicated business of space.