Space News

Photographer and storm chaser Mike Olbinski has captured some incredible storm footage over the years (such as this apocalyptic haboob in Arizona in 2011.) But his latest timelapse was something he's been chasing down fo...

We knew it was coming, but it is still sad to see the end of a mission. Controllers for the Herschel space telescope sent final commands today to put the observatory into a heliocentric parking orbit. Commands were sent ...

More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that find wasn't enough, another research group is teaching us why extremely high-energy X-rays are present in black holes...

On the last day of May 2013 asteroid 1998 QE2 passed relatively closely by our planet, coming within 6 million kilometers... about 15 times the distance to the Moon. While there was never any chance of an impact by the 3...