diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 10be0526a..bca3c5fd4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ docs = [
 ]
 test = [
     "ci-watson >=0.5.0",
-    "pytest >=4.6.0, <8.0.0",
-    "pytest-astropy",
+    "pytest >8.0.0",
+    "pytest-astropy >= 0.11.0",
     "deepdiff",
 ]
 dev = [