Space News

The two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, will appear super-close together before sunrise on Monday morning (Aug. 18), and it's just the kickoff for a week of early-bird observing by stargazers.

A meteorite that fell onto the roof of a house in Novato, California, on Oct. 17, 2012, has revealed a detailed picture of its origin and tumultuous journey through space and Earth's atmosphere....

How might humanity prepare for the possibility of discovering microbial or complex life beyond Earth? Scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians from around the world will convene at the Library of Congress Joh...

(Phys.org) --The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation.

What is it about crappy reporting and asteroids? The culprit this time is the UK's Telegraph. In its search to become ever more Daily Mailian, it ran an article about an asteroid called 1950 DA with this headline: Huge a...

Windowless planes may sound like a nightmare for the claustrophobe, but not when we're talking about the IXION private jet.

(University of Maryland) Astronomers have accurately measured -- and thus confirmed the existence of -- a rare intermediate-mass black hole about 400 times the mass of our sun in a galaxy 12 million light years from the ...