Space News

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano shares a lot of fantastic photos taken from his privileged position 260 miles up aboard the Space Station, orbiting the planet 16 times a day. This is his latest, a stunning view of night...

It's so exciting when the small talk that lubricates social interactions with strangers turns into an excited discussion of space and science.

The nearby star system Fomalhaut - of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk - has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the widest triple stars kn...

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After a one-month journey from Earth to the Moon, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) safely entered orbit at 10:57 UTC today, October 6.

NASA's trailblazing LADEE lunar spacecraft is set to ignite its main engine and enter lunar orbit on Sunday morning, Oct. 3 – if all goes well – following the spectacular Sept. 6 night launch from NASA's Virginia spa...

A key riddle in cosmology may be answered by the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson--now a leading contender for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 8. [More] --