Space News

Even though astronauts receive some general medical training in preparation for a stay aboard the ISS, most of them still aren't medical professionals by any means -- and with the inherent difficulties of microgravity an...

Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier, at times, reads like an updated version of some of Carl Sagan's classic work about the history of astronomy and our place in the Universe. Y...

For those fans of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, there's finally a successor volume to that. Neil deGrasse Tyson's Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier, at times, reads like an updated version of Sagan's classic b...

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by that old cheapskate, Steve Nerlich from Cheap Astronomy.

The massive tornado that tore through parts of Oklahoma on My 20, 2013 left a 32 km (20-mile) swath of destruction and death, with winds approaching 320 km/hr (200 mph). The US National Weather Service said the 3 km (2-m...

As the first eclipse season of 2013 comes to an end this weekend, an extremely subtle lunar eclipse occurs on the night of Friday, May 24th going into the morning of Saturday, May 25th. And we do mean subtle, as in invis...

Venus and Mars may be all right tonight, but there's still a lot we don't understand about these planets. Why does one, Venus, have such a thick atmosphere? Why is that of Mars so thin? And why is Earth's atmosphere so d...

NASA's Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail biting landing in August 2012 inside Gale Crater as she searches for the ingredients of life. On Sunday...

Admittedly, I'm partial to Randy Halverson's night sky photography from South Dakota. Having grown up in neighboring North Dakota myself, Halverson's images bring back memories of the dark skies that grace the northern p...