Space News

Surrounded by an envelope of dust, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a young forming star known as HBC 1....

NASA is calling all space enthusiasts to send their artistic endeavors on a journey aboard NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft....

On February 22, 2016 the U.S. Postal Service will issue The Moon Forever International rate stamp....

The idea that the wholesale relocation of Earth's continents 520 million years ago, also known as "true polar wander," coincided with a burst of animal speciation in the fossil record dates back almost 20 years to an ori...

The announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves in the United States on Thursday by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has encouraged scientists around the world, with China set to ac...

How can I possibly not write about four of my favorite things all in one place: 1) satellite imagery of our lovely planet, 2) volcanoes, 3) cloud patterns, and 4) gorgeous swirly ice patterns? All four of these are these...

(International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) Astronomers have discovered a spectacular tail of gas more than 300,000 light years across coming from a nearby galaxy.The plume is made up of hydrogen gas -- the mater...