Space News

Forty years ago, on July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first U.S. spacecraft to successfully land on Mars. To celebrate the anniversary of the historic robotic feat and to highlight NASA's effort to send humans to Mars i...

NASA's Kepler Mission found stars that resemble our sun about a few million years after its birth. The Kepler data showed many examples of what are called "superflares" - enormous explosions so rare today that we only ex...

How have I never heard of Dry Tortugas National Park until now? It's a little over 100 km west of Key West, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. It's pretty remote, accessible only by boat or seaplane, and has an interesting ...