Space News

Twice a year, around March and around September, I get to see Earth moving in between my telescopes and the Sun. Everyday for the next three weeks Earth will eclipse the Sun....

On August 27, NASA announced a milestone in development of the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket....

From donning a new space suit to a beautiful star explosion, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Aug. 30, 2014.

"Fundamentally, the solar system and everything in it was ultimately derived from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust," says Andrew Westphal, physicist at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laborato...

Heh. What was the view like two days before the video I posted this morning? This: So. COOL. That's the Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus resupply ship (the Janice Voss) at the end of the space station's Canadarm 2, ...

NASA's Mission to Pluto was a two part televised science event at NASA headquarters on August 25 - the same date that the agency's New Horizons spacecraft passed the orbit of Neptune on its way to Pluto and exactly 25...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Look up this Labor Day weekend to see a lovely celestial tableau in the southwestern part of the evening sky.

Today: Robonaut Leg Installation: Commander (CDR) Swanson attached Robonaut's mobility legs to the torso....

What makes our sun shine has been a mystery for most of human history.

Fabrication of the pathfinding version of NASA's Orion crew capsule slated for its inaugural unmanned test flight in December is entering its final stages at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch site in Florida. Enginee...

Final Frontier Design aims to produce spacesuits in Brooklyn, NY. The company's Space Suit Experience offers space fans the chance to try on a spacesuit for $400.

Four generations of researchers are on the hunt for gravitational waves.