Space News

Orbital debris is a menace - that's a fact. How to de-clutter space from human made junk is an on-going concern by numbers of countries. Space nets, laser blasts, garbage scows, giant foam balls - these and other techniq...

On September 14 - 20, come to Hawaii to soak up some science at Science Luau 2015! I'm pretty excited about this. My wife Marcella and I run a company called Science Getaways, where we take normal vacations and make them...

SpaceX nearly pulled off an unprecedented rocket landing during a cargo launch to the International Space Station and NASA's New Horizons probe returned its first color image of Pluto. Here's a look at Space.com's top st...

"NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind's first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at the agency's Headqua...

A spacecraft that carries a sensor built at the University of Michigan is about to crash into the planet closest to the sun--just as NASA intended.

Throughout his career Ronald Greeley was passionate about exploring Mars, so it's fitting that the late Arizona State University professor's name will grace maps of the Red Planet.

After spending more than a month in orbit on the dark side of dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured several views of the sunlit north pole of this intriguing world. These images were taken on April 10 f...