Space News

For all our astrophotographer friends out there: If you haven't heard about the Saturn Mosaic Project, you'll want to take note of this. In cooperation with Astronomers Without Borders, the special project for the recent...

NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover is now blazing across the Red Planet's surface and moving at a record setting pace towards a towering Martian mountain loaded with mineral caches that could potentially support a habitabl...

When it comes to carbon dioxide, just a little goes a long way to warming the planet. Unfortunately, we've been dumping vast amounts into the atmosphere, recently passing 400 parts per million. Let's look at the science ...

The Earth will get another close shave Monday, when the 152 metre asteroid 2003 DZ15 makes a pass by our fair planet on the night of July 29th/30th at 3.5 million kilometres distant. This is over 9 times the Earth-Moon d...

Should an astronaut get sick on the International Space Station, that could be a bad scene given the nearest hospital requires a spaceship ride. That's why every crew has at least two medical officers on board that can d...

NASA is testing out the parachutes for the new Orion crew vehicle, and in a first, is broadcasting it live as a Google+ Hangout from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Watch live above (from 10:30 to 11:30 a...

As part of the Comet ISON Observing Campaign, the Spitzer Space Telescope was used to "stare" at the comet for 24 hours on Jun 13, 2013. Images from Spitzer's "ISON-a-thon" indicate that carbon dioxide and dust are spewi...

So along with the rest of the world, you smiled. You waved. You went outside on July 19, wherever you were, and looked upwards and out into the solar system knowing that our robotic representative Cassini would be captur...