Space News

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs has reissued a notification by China on the future uncontrolled re-entry of the country's robotic Tiangong-1 space lab, which is expected to take place in the next eight ...

Before the year is out, the long awaited debut launch of the triple barreled Falcon Heavy rocket may at last be in sight says SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk, as he forthrightly acknowledges it comes with high risk and ...

Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic. What makes the Aug. 21 eclipse so special is that it will cut diagonally across the entire United...

Do you want to track local frog populations or photograph clouds for science? The young and curious kids you know can finish out the summer as citizen scientists --

NASA Astronaut Randy Bresnik: Gorgeous moon rise! Such great detail when seen from space. Next full moon marks #Eclipse2017. We'll be watching from the International Space Station....

With a dish the size of 30 football fields, China's new FAST radio telescope, which measures 500 meters in diameter, dwarfs Puerto Rico's 300-meter Arecibo Observatory. Having the world's largest and most powerful new ra...

Космонавт Сергей язанский: Kronotskaya Sopka, surrounded by clouds of clouds. Many say it is one of the most picturesque volcanoes of the kamchatka province....

The spacecraft's next orbit, its 287th, August 4 through the 10th, will pass one of the odd gashes or "propellers," in Saturn's vast ring disk. NASA scientists first spotted the anomalies in 2004, and they assumed footba...

Odd results could still be consistent with the “standard model” of cosmology --

Five years after touching down on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover mission is still making big discoveries.

A NASA mission designed to explore the stars in search of planets outside of our solar system is a step closer to launch, now that its four cameras have been completed by researchers at MIT.

Last week, a team of astronomers reported the first potential discovery of an exomoon--a satellite orbiting a planet around another star. Part of what is so striking about the report is the scale of this possible planet-...