Space News

Space photographer Mike Killian has captured an absolutely stunning astrophoto of this week's Atlas V blastoff that innovatively combines astronomy and rocketry – it's featured above. See additional Atlas launch imager...

Life on an exo-planet? No,these amazing images were taken near the Arctic Circle, where temperatures can fall as low as -40 degrees Celsius by nature photographer Niccolò Bonfadini who captured the shots during a nine-d...

A nanosatellite Ecuador launched began transmitting Saturday, and picked up a signal from another that had been lost, the Ecuadoran Civilian Space Agency said.

What started out as a 10-minute telescope lesson turned into something much more exciting, as a group of astronomy students raced against encroaching clouds to document an amazing scientific discovery: a new supernova in...

NASA's robot butler for astronauts, Robonaut 2, is still waiting for its legs to be delivered to the space station. In the meantime, video of the robot's twin on Earth shows how its climbing legs will allow the droid to ...

NASA's TDRS-L satellite launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket January 23, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. TDRS-L, the second of three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, ...

Sometimes, it pays to have friends in high places. Figuratively and literally. My friend Jeff Medkeff was an astronomer and asteroid hunter. Shortly before he died*, he named a passel of asteroids for some well-known ske...

John L. Callas, the project manager for the space agency's Mars Exploration Rover mission, explores the rovers' endurance well beyond their original 90-day mission --

The Sun has set for a second time at Chang'e 3's landing site on the Moon. The lander is operating normally and shut down to sleep as expected, but the rover is not responding properly to Earth command so could not prepa...