Space News

A pair of NASA astronauts donned their spacesuits for key fit check evaluations inside a test version of the Boeing Company's CST-100 commercial space taxi which was unveiled this week for the world's first view of the c...

Astrophotographer Cory Schmitz braved a brown bear in order to capture some wonderful images of the full Moon rise on July 22, 2013. This composite shows a series of images of the moonrise, and below is a beautiful timel...

"It's like looking for a charcoal briquette in the dark," says Bill Nye the Science Guy in this new video from AsapSCIENCE... except he's talking about briquettes hundreds of meters wide whizzing past our planet upwards ...

Astronaut Karen Nyberg shared this image on her Twitter feed, showing the view from the International Space Station on July 21, 2013 with thunderstorms brewing over Los Angeles and San Diego, California. City lights are ...

Going for gold in the Sochi Winter Olympics could earn athletes some out-of-this-world rocks. Athletes who top the podium on Feb. 15, 2014 will receive special medals with pieces of the Chelyabinsk meteor that broke up o...

Our modern society depends on science. It impacts the way we eat, work, communicate and play. And yet, most people take our amazing scientific advancement for granted, and some are even hostile to it. What can we do to s...

I spy the Curiosity Rover! With the Sun over its shoulders, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this image of the Curiosity rover on June 27, 2013, wh...