Space

Friday marks the official start of summer, but the advent also brings the curtain down on the growing sunrise to sunset ...

Opportunity has traversed 22.2 miles in its nine years and four months on the Red Planet, and is still performing good ...

For a challenge, check out the Eta Aquarid meteor shower through Friday, 5/10. For an easier challenge, there are plane ...

At the age of 59, International Space Station cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov (pictured above) set a new record last week by ...

April 15, 2013 [Dave Heller] Come one, come all: techies, geeks, freaks, families and those just looking for a fun ...

Astronomers catch sight of the fastest orbiting body yet – a small star circling a black hole every two-and-a-half hours! Remarkabl ...

The Mars Rover hits paydirt, or more appropriately pay-clay pointing to water, water everywhere; including possibly drops to drink. It ...

Astronomers, who have been trying to accurately clock the speed of a Supermassive black hole for some time, finally got their chance. Ke ...

Curiosity Rover is digging deep into Martian rock, well, maybe not that deep. A drill will go just 2.5 inches into a fine grain piece of ...

The 449th anniversary of Galileo’s birth back in 1564 comes up this Friday, February 15th and he is celebrating with an asteroid pa ...

Today is Clyde Tombaugh’s 107th birth anniversary. Born in 1906 , he was an American astronomer, rocket scientist and telescope bui ...

The amazing universe of Brown Dwarf stars: the most numerous of all in the galaxy, they form like normal stars do but lack the mass neede ...

Mars Science Lab Curiosty has discovered fractures filled with calcium sulfates in sedimentary rock units. On earth, fractures like the ...

Tips for mapping a path through the winter Milky Way? Since the Milky Way is now stretched across from the SE up to the NW, find a basic ...

So what happens with all the inner planets, rocky planets, gas giant planets, outer planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, exoplanets and ...