Space

Mercury in Evening Sky: Planet Can Be Spotted Wed. Night

A photo from a NASA’s Curiosity rover shows what some people are claiming is a rat or another ...

A massive asteroid flyby will take place later on Friday, officials with NASA have said.

Asteroid 1998 QE2, a massive space rock nearly to 2 miles wide, will fly past the Earth this ...

Three astronauts will launch into space on May 28, headed to the International Space Station. How do they ...

Lunar eclipse tonight: There will be a partial lunar eclipse tonight.

NASA astronomers have been watching the Moon for eight years under a special program, looking for signs of ...

Who are the three astronauts who will man the International Space Station through September?

Three astronauts are heading back from the International Space Station after spending 144 days aboard the space outpost.

Major solar flare: The sun emitted a major solar flare on May 12, the strongest of this year ...

People in Northern Australia were in for a rare treat on May 9: a solar eclipse in which ...

An anonymous former CIA official gave a video interview about extraterrestrials and what he called a cover up ...

Meteor shower this weekend: Just a few weeks after the Lyrid meteor shower passed over the Earth, skywatchers ...

Lunar eclipse Thursday: The lunar eclipse happens when the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon.

Meteor shower April 2013: NASA scientists with the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama will broadcast the ...

Pink full moon Thursday: The April full moon, generally called the “pink moon,” will take place on Thursday, ...

Meteor shower peaking: The Lyrid meteor shower, which takes place every year in April, will peak on Sunday ...

A galaxy cluster called “The Phoenix Cluster,” which is 5.7 billion light-years away from Earth and is forging ...

NASA Kepler discovery: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft will soon reveal a new discovery it made via the Kepler space ...

NASA: A test rocket will launch from a small facility on April 17

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has captured a detailed image of IC 1295, a planetary nebula ...

The connection known as quantum entanglement, which defies the laws of classical physics, will be tested over long ...

The more we learn about the formation and evolution of our solar system, the more we realise it ...

A red dwarf star and a black hole are orbiting each other once every 2.4 hours, a new ...

NASA, with the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee, has produced non-weapons grade plutonium to power future space ...

The atmosphere of the faraway gas giant HR8799c gives us clues about how it formed and perhaps how ...

We celebrate memorable sounds connected with outer space as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield takes command of the International ...