Space News

Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses provide the names of the 19 regions on Comet 67P -- in a recent blogpost on the European Space Agency's website, a scientist reminisced about how the names were chosen.

APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD – The highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto by humanity's first spacecraft ever to visit the last planet in our solar system revealed unanticipated new discoveries of ice ...

At Friday's press briefing, NASA scientists studying Pluto appeared to be giddy. What they once knew as only a yellowish blob is coming to life as a complex and fascinating world. NASA unveiled more discoveries about Plu...

Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.

I spent the past week at Pluto central--aka, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland--watching images and data come in from the New Horizons spacecraft. You don't need me to tell you how incr...

The battle over Pluto's status as a planet continues, not only in academic circles but also in my home.

Gorgeous views of Pluto and its ice mountains, its largest moon Charon to the release of Plutos USPS stamp, don't miss these amazing space images.

NASA's New Horizons probe dominated the news cycle this week, after making a successful close encounter with Pluto, and sending back incredible images and data. Plus, an astronaut mining company launched a tech-testing s...

I somehow didn't hear anything about the comet C/2014 Q1 (Pan-STARRS), which isn't to surprising: It never got bright to northern hemisphere observers. The comet's orbit kept it mostly in the southern hemisphere's skies,...