Space News

Bioluminescent stars flash across the night landscape these July nights. Fireflies or lightning bugs provide a source of wonder for many of us living in the eastern half U.S. and Canada. Did you know dark skies may be as...

The Hubble Space Telescope team has released a video of Comet ISON is tearing toward its encounter with the Sun, zooming at 77,250 km/h (48,000 miles per hour). The comet's motion is captured in a timelapse movie, below,...

It looks like Vulcan was not the logical choice for the International Astronomical Union when it came to naming Pluto's new moons. The internationally recognized body for astronomy names selected Kerberos and Styx as the...

The latest exciting undertaking in exoplanet research is the search for exomoons. A team led by Dr. David Kipping at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has jumped at this challenge. After having theoreticall...

At 2:38 UTC Tuesday morning (local time) a Russian Progress-M heavy lift rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation/positioning satellites exploded shortly after lifting off from the pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The event w...

It's been 9 years (to the day, in fact) since the Cassini spacecraft first entered orbit around Saturn and ever since it has been sending a steady stream of incredible images from the ringed planet back to Earth, bridgin...

NASA is picking up the pace of assembly operations for the Orion capsule, America's next crew vehicle destined to carry US astronauts to Asteroids, the Moon, Mars and Beyond. Just over a year from now in September 2014, ...