Space News

Like tantalizing tidbits stored in the vast recesses of one's refrigerator, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have evidence of a shell of stars left over from one of the Milky Way's meals. In a study which ...

Italy's Mount Etna has turned on again, spewing lava and gas in its first big eruption in 2013. The volcano is one of the most active in the world, and is Europe's tallest active volcano, currently standing about 3,329 m...

The official name is "extra-vehicular activity," (EVA) but most of us like to call it a spacewalk. However, when you think about it, you don't really walk in space. You float. Or more properly speaking, clutch on to hand...

Emily Coren is an accomplished illustrator and scientist, and she's figured out how to bring those two skills together to make science easier to understand: science illustrations. On her blog, Emily regularly illustrates...

NASA has released the findings from a panel that investigated the 2011 crash of the Glory spacecraft after it failed to reach orbit on board an Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket, falling into the Pacific Ocean. Early on,...

This footage was obtained by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 19, 2012. It provides a stunning display of solar activity and shows how wildly different events on the Sun can be. Some come just...

Scientists have discovered a new planet orbiting a Sun-like star, and the exoplanet is the smallest yet found in data from the Kepler mission. The planet, Kepler-37b, is smaller than Mercury, but slightly larger than Ear...