Space News

With NASA's Dawn spacecraft set to enter its final and lowest orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, spectral measurements are enabling researchers to gradually unravel the nature of the numerous mysterious and intriguing ...

Russia on Sunday successfully launched a military satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the defence ministry said in a statement.

"There seems to be a mysterious link between the amount of dark matter a galaxy holds and the size of its central black hole, even though the two operate on vastly different scales," said Akos Bogdan of the Harvard-Smith...

A Proton rocket successfully launched a Russian military communications satellite Dec. 12 in the seventh Proton launch of 2015. SpaceNews.com

Via Jenny Winder on Facebook, I saw this absolutely stunning time-lapse video of storms over Arizona taken by photographer Mike Olbinski. Seriously, you know the drill: Make it full screen, and turn the volume up. Then e...

Space.com delves into surprise salt on Ceres, a lack of alien lasers, a successful space delivery and a spectacular upcoming meteor shower in its top stories of this week.

From a bright spot on Ceres to stargazer views of Comet Catalina, don't miss these amazing space images.