Space News

Like any good tourist, NASA's rover Curiosity apparently couldn't resist the photobug urge from a gorgeous Martian mountain scene she happened by recently and decided to pull over and enjoy the view. So she stopped the d...

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It's not every day that a dog helps save astronauts in space, but that is exactly what happens in author Jeffrey Bennett's latest tale of a pooch named Max and his trip to the International Space Station.

In July of 2012, astronomers observed a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed while using the Hubble Space Telescope. They were taking pictures of about 300 very ...

The moment of truth has arrived: Will "Gravity" pull in Oscar gold, or will those who worked on the science fiction movie go home empty handed?

The wait is over. It's Oscar night at last and time to find out of Alfonso Cuaron's space thriller 'Gravity' has the sheer force and pull to take home the 10 Academy Awards it's nominated for.

I do enjoy watching the odd time-lapse video of the sky or two, and I love sharing them with y'all as well. Many are beautiful, of course, and that's reason enough to spread the word. They encourage people to go outside ...

To say space research is a waste of money is wrong. For every US$1 put into US space agency, its citizens get US$10 as payback; in Japan and the European Union that amount is more than US$3.