Space News

Comet PANSTARRS has peaked, but astronomers are still keeping an eye on this comet to try and determine what its future might hold. The team from the Remanzacco Observatory has just produced some really interesting views...

Although today Mars' atmosphere is sparse and thin -- barely 1% the density of Earth's at sea level -- scientists don't believe that was always the case. The Red Planet likely had a much denser atmosphere similar to ours...

A fire breaks out on the International Space Station while the orbiting complex is over Russian mission control. How, as an English-speaking astronaut, would you keep up with instructions? The answer is years of Russian ...

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at the Next Big Future blog.

A star party favorite is about to return to evening skies. The planet Saturn can now be spied low to the southeast for northern hemisphere observers (to the northeast for folks in the southern) rising about 1-2 hours aft...

Orbital Sciences has contracted with NASA to make supply runs to the International Space Station.