Space News

The Earth view from the cupola onboard the International Space Station....

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureaux at the Links Through Space blog.

"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How...

When designing a mission for space, engineers work in terms of 'end-of-life' performance how will a material respond to the extreme environment of space across multiple years?...

The folks at the European Space Agency released a new picture of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and I have to admit that it threw me. Huh. That's the comet? Where's the second lobe? For a second I thought we were just ...

When you mention rich ecosystems that are vital for life on Earth, people tend to think of rainforests, but ocean plankton are actually just as crucial. The microscopic beings that drift on the upper layer of the oceans ...

Science@NASA:

Thank you to everyone who has participated up to this point! The votes have been counted and Planet Hunters has submitted the following naming suggestion to the IAU ExoWorld naming contest: PSR 1257 12: Photo – Photo i...