Space

People wanting to see the peak activity of the Perseids meteor shower, which began on July 17, should plan ahead for August 11 and August 12. During those two days, ...

Although extremely rare, our planet's surface bears the scars of many direct hits from outer space. Listed are ...

The NASA WISE telescope might be used as an asteroid hunter, it was reported.

Coronal hole in sun: A hole in the sun about 400,000 miles across was observed by NASA on ...

A NASA camera caught clouds stretching in parallel rows over the Bering Sea in April, in an image ...

NASA will launch the ISS Progress 52 cargo craft into space on Saturday from Kazakhstan, it was reported.

NASA and Army engineers have been working on the Orion test capsule, and will drop it from a ...

An asteroid around the size of a football field will travel past Earth tonight, July 22. The near-Earth ...

Two Apollo 11 rocket engines were rescued by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the Atlantic this year, he ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has enabled astronomers to figure out the color of a planet orbiting another star ...

NASA tested its Morpheus Lander today, July 11. The test and live stream is over.  Morpheus is a ...

At 7a.m. EDT, Tuesday, NASA Television coverage will begin of the 6.5-hour spacewalk as flight engineers at the ...

Pluto moons were named Styx and Kerberos after the river and three-headed dog in ancient Greece’s version of ...

60 billion planets could host alien life or could conceivably be located within a star’s habitable zone within ...

IRIS telescope launch: NASA is on June 27 launching a new space observatory--propelled into Earth orbit by a ...

From paper to plastic and beyond. Fueled by consumers who want access to their money regardless of how ...

The first steps are being taken to create an intergalactic currency. PayPal will unveil PayPal Galactic working with ...

The stuff of science fiction sometimes becomes reality in a much shorter time than people would expect. With ...

Almost 15 years ago, PayPal set out to be a global currency—today, we are expanding our vision off ...

Across the world, people took photos of the supermoon over the weekend.

Two members of the Expedition 36 crew are taking a 6-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station June ...

The summer solstice in June is on Friday, meaning its the longest daylight period for 2013 and the ...

The European Space Agency said it will send a rover to Mars to determine if the Red Planet ...

Asteroid "grand challenge:" NASA is asking for help from the public, especially experts in fields related to astronomy ...

Herschel, a floating space observatory carrying the largest telescope ever flown in space, has reached the end of ...

The United States space agency NASA picked eight astronauts out of a gigantic pool of applicants on June ...

Boron, which could have played a key role in the formation of RNA (a precursor to DNA), was ...