Space News

Last week, a video went viral that purports to show a skydiver narrowly missed by a meteoroid falling past him. A lot of people have been speculating over the video, of course. I watched it many times, and after giving i...

As the International Space Station passed over the deserts of central Iran, including Kavir, one of the Expedition 38 crew members used a digital camera equipped with a 200mm lens to record this image featuring an unusua...

Planets abound in the night sky this month, which affords good views of Venus, Jupiter and Neptune. And on Tuesday (April 8), Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in more than six years.

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, t...

At the Solander Point section of the rim of Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity spent the month of March just off Murray Ridge working on its final targets in Cook Haven and dusting itself in the winds o...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a galaxy cluster so huge that it acts like a magnifying glass, warping and amplifying distant light from pale galaxies much father away in the background.

By now, you may have already heard the latest tale of gloom and doom surrounding the upcoming series of lunar eclipses. This latest "End of the World of the Week" comes to us in what's being termed as a "Blood Moon," and...

NASA should set up a clear set of ethical rules regarding the health of astronauts on long-duration spaceflights -- such as a trip to Mars -- in the near future, according to a panel of health and ethics experts.

Mars takes the celestial stage in a rare event Tuesday (April 8) when the planet comes into alignment with Earth and the Sun about one week before an even more spectacular cosmic sight.

Everything dies, including our technology. But when we've hurtled a few thousands pounds of robotic instrumentation to another planet, it gets a little difficult to shut it down and clean up. What do we do when a mission...

Remarkable images from on-board cameras provide a detailed "ride-along" view of Arianespace's Flight VS07, which orbited Europe's Sentinel-1A from the Spaceport in French Guiana....

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, t...

Expedition 39 wrapped up its first full workweek aboard the International Space Station as a six-person crew Friday with biomedical research and preparations for the departure of Russian cargo spacecraft....

Sloan Digital Sky Survey III: Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used 140,000 distant quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was only one-quarter of its present age. This is the bes...

Secrets of the universe are hiding inside light. Sunday's (April 6) episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" explored some of those secrets in stunning detail and animation.

Media are invited to attend NASA's third annual International Space Apps Challenge. The main event will be held April 12-13 in New York.

Teams of engineers are rushing to put a robotic spacecraft on the moon in the Google Lunar X Prize competition. This week, the Science Channel and Discovery Channel announced that they will cover the moon race.

ESA Top News: ESA and CERN are joining forces to take discoveries from space and particle accelerators into industrial use at this year's Hannover Messe, the world's largest industry fair

Angela Merkel and Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte were introduced to space activities at this year's Hannover Messe, the world's largest industry fair

ESA and CERN are joining forces to take discoveries from space and particle accelerators into industrial use at this year's Hannover Messe, the world's largest industry fair

Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn has confirmed that Star Wars Episode seven has already started filming, but they haven't cast everybody yet.

How I took a high-res photo of an intriguing spot on the Red Planet--and how you can, too.