Space News

Two years from today, on Aug. 21, 2017, North Americans will get an opportunity to observe nature's greatest sky show: a total solar eclipse that will cross the entire continent.

Physicists suggest a new way to look for dark matter: they believe that dark matter particles annihilate into so-called dark radiation when they collide. If true, then we should be able to detect the signals from this ra...

On Aug. 19, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched its "Kounotori" H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-5 from the Tanegashima Space Center to the International Space Station....

Oh, I love a good science pun. This idea came to me as soon as the "Straight Outta Compton" meme started spreading. I lack actual Photoshop skills though, so I tweeted about it, and Twitter user ClockWorkSimon came to th...

Hurricane Danny, The first Atlantic Ocean hurricane of the 2015 season has been caught on camera by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, in a beautiful image taken on Thursday, August 20 at 6 a.m. EDT from his glorious perch aboa...

When the sun sets in the King Range National Conservation Area in far northern CA Coast, the stars really do come out. Watch the Milky Way arc across the sky high above the Pacific fog.

Learn the latest about Pluto in a live Google Hangout with NASA New Horizons co-lead Richard Benzel, team member Cathy Olkin, and Pluto expert Michael Brown.