Space News

Dear Senator On the morning of Friday, February 15th, the planet Earth was once again reminded of its vulnerability to the dangers of our own solar system. An estimated 11,000-ton meteor exploded over the skies of the so...

Thanks to the Cassini mission we’ve known about the jets of icy brine spraying from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus for about 8 years now, but this week it was revealed at the 44th Lunar and Pl...

Every star has a story but some are more curious than others. The star Arcturus has an electrifying story with a mysterious twist involving the 1933 World’s Fair. (...)Read the rest of The Curious and Confounding ...

See photos of amazing auroras taken by SPACE.com readers in 2013.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #293. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all th...

Not even two and a half weeks after a memory glitch that sent NASA’s Curiosity rover into a safe mode on Feb. 27, the robotic Mars explorer once again went into standby status as the result of a software discrepan...

Last month social empowerment community GOOD teamed up with Microsoft's Give For Youth, a program that helps nonprofits crowd fund their youth-focused projects in partnership with GlobalGiving, in the GOOD Maker Challeng...