Space News

It's time for another Weekly Space Hangout, where a dedicated team of space journalists run down all the big stories in space and astronomy for the week of July 26, 2013. Host: Fraser Cain Panel: Jason Major, Scott Lewis...

You know that friend who's hopelessly confused about science news, the one who asks classics like "didn't we just send an SUV or something to Mars?" Are you that friend? Regardless of who it is, you've just found their n...

You know that friend who's hopelessly confused about science news, the one who asks classics like "didn't we just send an SUV or something to Mars?" Are you that friend? Regardless of who it is, you've just found their n...

When we consider samples from the solar nebula, we think about comets and meteorites. These materials come from our solar system's beginning, but the clues they give to formation don't always mesh neatly. Thanks to a new...

The meteor shower drought ends this weekend. The northern summer hemisphere meteor season is almost upon us. In a few weeks' time, the Perseids -- the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers -- will be gracing night skies world...

Earlier this week, the visionaries who operate NASA's Cassini spacecraft released a remarkable snapshot of Earth as seen from Saturn. It got a ton of media attention, and rightly so. It is a stunning celestial view that ...