Space News

After the great success of the first SpaceUp in France, at ESA HQ in Paris last year, we are getting ready for the second SpaceUp Unconference on French soil. This time the venue is as-epic as was last year’s: Cité de...

Country music star Brad Paisley traveled to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to launch his new song, 'American Flag on the Moon.' 'I'm at NASA's Apollo launch pad in FL, leaking my new song,' Paisley wrote on Twitt...

Not wanting to get stuck in a rut, Curiosity's handlers have commanded NASA's SUV-sized rover to reverse course and drive out of a potentially hazardous Martian valley of slippery sand with poor wheel traction and instea...

The new discovery suggests better ways to deflect an incoming space rock --

A month after its launch, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide - has reached its final operating orbit and returned its first science data....

Oh, I do get around. If you're a comic book fan, you might remember an issue of Ant Man where I'm quoted. And were you aware Black Widow, Nick Fury, and I go way back? And now, it so happens, I've had something of a run-...

An amazing new video shows a stage of the private spaceflight company SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket make a soft splashdown in the ocean after delivering six satellites to space.

The crowdfunding campaign for "Star Trek: Axanar" -- a fan-funded "Star Trek" film -- has raised more than $200,000 donated through the website Kickstarter, blowing well past the original goal of $100,000.

This week on Virtually Speaking Science, I chatted with astrophysicist Katie Freese, author of a new book, The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter. --