Space News

The Curiosity team mapped out a new route to some interesting rocks using images captured by Curiosity and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the Red Planet since 2006.

The science team leading NASA's long-lived Opportunity rover mission is honoring the pioneering solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight of aviator Charles Lindbergh by assigning key features of the Mars mountain top crater ar...

What if the universe is not just matter and energy, but bits of information?

The dark squares that make up the checkerboard pattern in this image are fields of a sortfields of seaweed....

If your local weather is clear tonight (May 23), check out the western sky around mid-twilight - about an hour after sunset. There, about half way up from the south-southwest horizon to the overhead point, you'll see an ...

From the launch of the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane to new views of the odd bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 23, 2015.

As someone who loves looking at clouds, and may have a somewhat scientifically directed brain, I'm fascinated by the shapes and structures of clouds. Where I live, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, provides endless exa...

The Holocene Climate Optimum was a period of global climate warming that occurred between six to nine thousand years ago. At that time, the global average temperatures were somewhere between four to six degrees Celsius h...