Space News

Stargazers have a chance to see the five brightest planets in the May night sky, weather permitting. Here's how to see Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury

Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky -- making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers -- and is famous for the dust lane across its middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black...

As engineer Manuel Aiple moves his gauntleted hand, the robotic hand a few metres away in ESA's telerobotics laboratory follows in sync....

From one big shake up to another, in this week's episode --"The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth"-- Neil deGrasse Tyson tells more stories of Earth's violent past, starting with the Late Heavy Bombardment --a period of time a...

Budget season is in full swing in Washington, D.C., and we're starting to see indications of how NASA will fare this year. I have to say, things are looking pretty promising.

The Fox TV series "Cosmos" will delve into the origins of our home planet Earth on Sunday (May 4), and actress Amanda Seyfried will use her voice to help the science show do it.

In all the universe, 'Life's the thing,' says 'Satch.' The guitarist / composer, shares the genesis of his cosmically flavored instrumental titles with Space.com's @DavidSkyBrody in this exclusive chat, which orbits arou...

A small asteroid about the size of a city bus zipped by Earth at a range closer than the moon early Saturday (May 3), but posed no threat to our planet. The newly discovered asteroid 2014 HL129 came within 186,000 miles ...

SpaceX, the private spaceflight company, has been testing a series of vertical takeoff and landing rockets for a while now. The first was Grasshopper, which was cool. They've now moved up to the F9R Dev, the Falcon 9 Reu...

Astronomers use many terms to describe what happens during an eclipse, and this glossary shows some of the more common things they say.

Digging deeper into the findings from BICEP2 -- how and what drove the Big Bang.

The latest digest of upcoming space and astronomy news events, from the RAS. This month includes the launch of the latest crewed mission to the International Space Station, the possibility of a brand new meteor shower an...