Space News

The planets are slowly returning into view this month, bashfully peeking out from behind the Sun in the dawn & dusk sky. This month offers a bonanza of photogenic conjunctions, involving the Moon, planets and bright star...

Two years after space shuttle Atlantis launched into space, it's still looking like it returned from a long journey. It "bears the scars, scorch marks and space dust of its last mission," writes the Kennedy Space Center ...

Do you feel like you're in the firing gallery? These sunspots are practically square-on to Earth right now. Although they haven't shown much sign of erupting, if they did our planet would be right in the line of fire if ...

As kids, my friends and I would stare at clouds on lazy summer afternoons and point out faces and animals we saw in their folds and domes. When the light was right, some of them looked as detailed and real as if chiseled...