Space News

We'll be the first to admit that the 1983 movie The Right Stuff takes artistic license when it talks about the Mercury program and other events. It exaggerates problems between the astronauts, portrays the journalists as...

With all the various space rocks flying by and into Earth last Friday, perhaps you've been wondering about the correct terminology, since a rock from space has different names depending on what it is made of and where it...

A good majority of modern Americans have never seen truly dark skies. I was fortunate to grow up in northern Maine in the 1970s with skies dark enough to see the summer Milky Way right from my doorstep. For most of the E...