Space News

Here's one bit of NASA outreach that won't be affected by suspensions or sequesters: an edited version of "We Are The Explorers," a video highlighting the past successes and future goals of the space administration -- cr...

In Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon narrowly escaped being devoured by an exogorth (space slug) slumbering inside an asteroid crater. An unsuspecting rogue giant planet wasn't as lucky. Astronomers using the Integral spa...

Here's a quick overview from Jane Houston Jones from JPL of what you can see in the night skies during April 2013. Of special interest is that Saturn's north pole is now tilted towards Earth, giving us the best view of t...

The next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) will be the first spacecraft ever to make direct measurements of the Martian atmosphere. MAVEN will carry eight science instruments, ...

If you could spend a few months -- or even a few days -- living aboard the ISS, what would you take pictures of? Earth, most likely, with your favorite landforms and your family's and friends' hometowns ranking high on t...

They say that perspective is everything. In this case perspective and filters are what makes this such a great astrophoto! We've been following Joseph Brimacombe's astrophotography for years, and have come to appreciate ...