Space News

A few years back, when we were all a little younger and less jaded - okay - when I was younger and less jaded (!) Universe Today reviewed the book The Rocket Company. This book speaks to the need of bootstraping our way ...

On Monday, I appeared on RT America's live news broadcast to talk exoplanets -- particularly the three small (possibly rocky) worlds that orbit the stars Kepler-62 and Kepler-69. It was a lot of fun discussing 'Goldilock...

This image almost looks like an artist's concept, but is an actual photo taken by a camera on board Orbital Science's Antares rocket showing the Cygnus mass simulator shortly after separation from the rocket's upper stag...

While Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) is fading to barely naked-eye and binocular visibility (the comet has lost a full magnitude approximately every week since perihelion on March 9), astrophotographers are still able to tr...

Think about your typical construction worker -- there's a lot of reaching, bending, stretching, lifting. How do you accomplish those tasks without gravity, as astronauts do on the International Space Station? According t...

The Russian Progress 51 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 24, at 12:12 UTC (6:12 am EDT) and is on its way to the International Space Station. Unlike its three predecessors, Progress 5...

"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth," Carl Sagan famously said in his iconic TV series Cosmos. But when two of those grains are made of ...

The privately developed Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corp. successfully blasted off on its maiden test flight from the shores of Virginia on April 21 at 5 p.m. EDT from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) ...

A rock that crashed through a house in Connecticut last weekend has been confirmed to be a meteorite. Homeowner Larry Beck called police in Wolcott, CT at 10:30 a.m. on April 20, 2013 and said a baseball-sized rock crash...