Space News

It's been a long time since we've seen a new time-lapse video of the Earth seen from the International Space Station, so how about this one from Selmesfilms called "Orbit"? Lovely! Funny, too: Although there's nothing re...

A 36-year-old NASA spacecraft will begin a new interplanetary science mission today (Aug. 10) when it makes a close pass by the moon. You can watch the lunar flyby live online at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Here's how to watch.

The orbital airframe structure for the first commercial Dream Chaser mini-shuttle that will launch to Earth orbit just over two years from now has been unveiled by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and program partner Lock...

Get ready for the darling of meteor showers this week -- the Perseids. Who can deny their appeal? Not only is the shower rich with fiery flashes of meteoric light, but the meteors come in August when the weather's couldn...

What we perceive as the big bang, physicists at the Perimeter Institure argue, could be the three-dimensional "mirage" of a collapsing star in a universe profoundly different than our own. Conventional understanding hold...

The Peloponnese, Greece is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 39 crew member on the International Space Station. This view shows most of Greece....

The planets in the Solar System are continuously bombarded by space rocks. This violent process early on formed the planets by accretion, and impacts still shape the surface of terrestrial and icy bodies today....

The largest full moon of 2014 rises today (Aug. 10), and even if you don't have a clear view of the sky, you can still catch the cosmic action live online.