Space News

Don't miss this brilliant talk by astrophysicist Jeff Kuhn. There are more planets in the Universe than stars. With technology like the upcoming Colossus Telescope, the decades-old Fermi question will soon cease to be a ...

Larry Crumpler gives an update on Opportunity's current location, next long-term target, and excitingly increasing power levels.

In tonight's Episode 4, Hiding in the Light, Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a tour de force of light and its effect on our existence in the Universe. Our human window on the Universe is within a stunningly small...

The 1-ton Curiosity rover trundled 98 feet (30 meters) on Wednesday (April 2), topping a small hill that affords a good view of the surrounding area, which the mission team has dubbed "the Kimberley," officials said.

New measurements by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the cluster nicknamed "El Gordo" (Spanish for "the fat one") contains about as much mass as 3 quadrillion suns. That's 43 percent larger than previous work h...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an undersea volcano a thousand kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan, reached a milestone: Its peak reached the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It became an actual island. For millennia it slept,...