Space News

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft may be appearing in a backyard sky near you this weekend. Scheduled to launch this Friday on March 1st at 10:10 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST)/15:10 Universal Time (UT), this will be the 3rd re...

There is an outside chance that a newly discovered comet might be on a collision course with Mars. Astronomers are still determining the trajectory of the comet, named C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), but at the very least, it...

In Native American lore, the full Moon in February is called the Snow Moon, as this time of year usually signals the deepest snows of winter in the now cold northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, the f...

It's a wonderful thing for children to look up to their fathers, but some kids have to look a little further than others -- especially when dad is in command of the International Space Station! Around 6 p.m. EST on Febru...

A little over a year ago Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, announced the team's plans to have a Forever Stamp issued by the US Postal Service commemorating the New Horizons spacecraft along ...

We've currently found 867 different exoplanets, but have yet to definitely determine if one of those harbors life. How will astronomers make that determination? They'll look at things such as its composition, orbital pro...

Just a week after a huge fireball streaked across the skies of the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, astronomers published a paper that reconstructs the orbit and determines the origins of the space rock that exploded about ...