Space News

B612 Foundation CEO and fmr. NASA astronaut Ed Lu talks about why an infrared space telescope is needed to search for hundreds of thousands of undocumented near-Earth asteroids and why they are doing it privately.

From a stunning image of a 'Canyon of Fire' ripping across the sun to photos of Comet ISON, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Oct. 26, 2013.

From dancing auroras over Maine and Norway to a beautifully captured image of 'Cygnus Wall' don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe - colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natur...

During a crucial speed boosting slingshot maneuver around Earth on Oct. 9, NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno probe snapped a dazzling gallery of portraits of our Home Planet over the South American coastline and the Atlantic Oce...

When a 200,000-mile (320,000-kilometer) filament of solar material tore through the sun last month, it cut what looks like a "canyon of fire" in our closest star, new NASA observations show.

Two artists built their vision of the future of human spaceflight brick by brick, and you can see it in a new book.

A new book by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard presents LEGO versions of familiar space technology alongside futuristic visions. No Starch Press will publish "LEGO Space: Building the Future" on November 11, 2013.

The other day, I wrote about an illusion using a pair of sunglasses and how easy it is to fool our brains into seeing things that aren't there. The maker of the video illusion used distorted pictures to trick you into th...

The Autumn Equinox 2013 issue of The Planetary Report is hot off the presses and is in the mail.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: On a loop high above Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a stately view of a golden Saturn and its rings.

Five satellites in geostationary orbit owned by the governments of the United States, China, India and Indonesia were retired in 2012 into too-low orbits that did not meet internationally accepted debris mitigation guide...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Raghvendra Sahai of JPL and his team expose the true nature of the Boomerang nebula.

Europe's heaviest-ever cargo carrier to the International Space Station is set to undock on Monday after completing its mission, according to a European Space Agency (ESA) blog.