Space News

"X" marks the spot that's illustrative of "convective churning" resulting from subsurface planetary heating, as seen in a fascinating new super high resolution image received from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Christ...

Weird as it sounds, "entangled" particles really can interact at a distance.

Astronomers have used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to make the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster....

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station looked toward the horizon as the spacecraft sped across southern Africa....

Extreme rain events fueled by the current strong El Nino have started to affect California....

I love playing hashtag games on Twitter. Someone gives a topic, makes it a hashtag, and then others come up with something that fits. Usually they're funny (the TV show @Midnight does a hashtag war every weeknight, and I...

Scientists initiated Friday a last-chance manoeuvre to contact a long-silent robot-lab dropped more than a year ago onto the surface of a comet hurtling through our solar system.

Please join me in congratulating one of our prolific Planet Hunters, Daryll LaCourse (aka Nighthawk Black), who received the Chambliss Prize for Amateur Astronomy. Woo-hoo! The award was announced at the American Associa...

Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas.

The Milky Way grew up and out, with the first stars forming closer to the galaxy's center while newer generations grew from material gathered along the expanding edge of the disk.

"It was so weird that people were forced to chuck their favorite theories and start from scratch," says Adam Martin, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame about an unusual bump that appeared in t...