Space News

New video recorded during the return of NASA's Orion through Earth's atmosphere this month provides a taste of the intense conditions the spacecraft and the astronauts it carries will endure when they return from deep sp...

Remember how breathless we felt when the Philae lander actually made it to the surface of its target comet a few weeks ago? Sure, the maneuvers didn’t go as planned, but the images the spacecraft obtained in its brief ...

In the 1960s, we thought the best way of sending stuff between Earth and space was through a transporter. These days, turns out all it takes is an e-mail and a special 3-D printer. The first tool created in space, a rach...

Today is the real reason for the season: It's the winter solstice! If you're a purist, then raise your glass at 23:03 UTC (18:03 Eastern US time), because that's the moment the solstice occurs. There are a lot of ways to...