Space

Thanks to dark, dark skies; Northern Chile currently houses 50% of the world’s light gathering capacity, soon to be 70% – tha ...

Mars is at its closest approach to Earth for this year. Surprisingly there are no rumors this time around about Mars appearing as large a ...

Beyond the eight planets orbiting our sun… the next largest objects are the cohort of so-called Dwarf Planets. Tomorrow marks the 5 ...

The newest Kepler satellite data reveals startling information about frequency of earth-like planets – 3,200 planets now confirmed, ...

Astronomers may have discovered a way to ‘see’ dark matter using gravitational lens distortions to see perturbations in Einst ...

Launch vehicle provider (United Launch Alliance) and habitat provider (Bigelow Aerospace) announce alliance to launch a private space hab ...

Quasar 3C 273, that’s what’s hot. – 18 trillion degrees F! One of the largest black holes ever seen is discovere ...

This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...

Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...

European Space Agency and Roscosmos partnered to send a methane-hunting orbiter and a EDL systems tester to Mars. Should arrive in Octobe ...

A look at the work of Albert Einstein – he was born on March 14 in 1879. Today is also the birthday of Gene Cernan (born in ...

Clocks shift forward one hour this Sunday morning (2 a.m.) A total solar eclipse can be seen this week in Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawes ...

Year in Space chronicles Astronaut Scott Kelly’s preparation and 12-month mission (starting with the launch last Mrch 27th ...

Scientists are using the aging Hubble Space Telescope to determine the components of the atmosphere of a so-called super-Earth planet 40 ...

Gravitational Waves detected, confirming a key component of Albert Einstein’s understanding of the cosmos. Derrick Pitts, chief ast ...