Space News

For two hours Friday, astronauts in orbit opened their out-of-this-world home to the people of Earth, offering an unprecedented raw glimpse into the beauty - and peril -- of life on the International Space Station.

Congratulations to Cristovao Jacques and the SONEAR team! On March 13 they snared C/2014 E2 (Jacques) in CCD images taken with a 0.45-meter (17.7-inch) wide-field reflector at the SONEAR (Southern Observatory for Near Ea...

Since Seth MacFarlane tweeted that this weekend's episode of Cosmos was going to include a segment on lakes on Titan, I thought I'd write a post explaining the basics of Titan lakes.

The March full moon will rise on Sunday night (March 16) in a brilliant display that will allow Internet denizens to investigate the site of the most brilliant lunar explosion in a free live webcast, weather permitting.

On the eve of last week's premiere of "COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey," host and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson waxed poetic about science literacy, exoplanets and the Tooth Fairy here at the South by Southwest festival...

Well, it took three months, but we have our first notpocalypse of 2014! Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are spreading a story that a large asteroid named 2003 QQ47 might impact the Earth next week, specifically...

An interactive exhibit all about the famous mathematical puzzle will open April 26 in New Jersey.

On March 14, 2014, NASA and the National Geographic Channel made space history with an unprecedented TV event: a two-hour program called 'Live From Space.' See our complete updates here.

Mat Kaplan checks an item off his bucket list: Seeing the aurora in Alaska.

Soledad O'Brien would definitely go to space. The host of the "Live From Space" TV program airing tonight (March 14), O'Brien explained that she would fly to the International Space Station if given a chance.

The moon just over the horizon seen from the NASA P-3 over northeast Greenland during an IceBridge survey flight on Mar. 12, 2014....

Russian Search and Rescue all terrain vehicles (ATVs) and live television support vehicles are seen at the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft landing site after the soyuz landed....