Space News

DARPA has selected three awardees of $6.5 million each to develop and design the concept of a spaceplane that will be able to send small spacecraft in orbit, fly at Mach 10 speed, return to Earth and go back to space rep...

A spectacular display of celestial fireworks like none ever witnessed before, burst forth from Rosetta's comet right on time – commemorating the Europeans spacecraft's history making perihelion passage after a year lon...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has postponed the launch of its H-II Transport Vehicle (HTV)-5 to the International Space Station to 7:50 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 19. NASA Television will carry live cove...

NASA astronauts eat space-grown lettuce for the first time, and burying people on the moon gets easier -- here are Space.com's best space stories of the week.

The discovery of a baby Jupiter could be an important step in rewriting the book on planet formation.

Last week was the peak of the Perseids meteor shower, one of the best and most reliable sky shows of the year. I received approximately eleventy billion tweets about it, and it seems that most folks saw several dozen met...