When Aliens Attack

When Aliens Attack: 'Battleship' Strategy with SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak

What's the harm in trying to contact aliens in space? Well, for one, if they're hostile, a cosmic call lets them know where we are. So it goes in the blockbuster film Battleship, which opens in U.S. theaters....Read More...

Space Shuttle and Beyond

First Stardust Images of Comet Tempel 1

Astronomers discover new way of spotting planets that were hidden in their star's glare

Private Rocket Launch Saturday May Herald New Commercial Spaceflight Era

By Clara Moskowitz

A turning point for private spaceflight looks to be on the horizon.

The commercial rocket builder SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies of Hawthorne, Calif.) is preparing to launch the first privately built vehicle to the International Space Station this week. If it succeeds, it will....Read More...

Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved

Moon may have as much water as earth

Where Will NASA's Space Shuttles Retire?

Asteroid Vesta is more like a small planet

It's very unlikely that anyone on Earth will ever enjoy a flight over the huge asteroid Vesta, the second-biggest in the asteroid belt - but Nasa's satellite Dawn has created the next best thing. The Nasa video 'flyover' has revealed that Vesta is a 'building block' of a planet,....Read More...

Stereo Speakers Can Levitate Dust for Mars Colonists

Black Hole Blows Massive Gas Bubble

Astronomers discover new way of spotting planets that were hidden in their star's glare

'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Occurs May 20

Skywatchers in East Asia and the western United States should circle Sunday (May 20) on their calendars. That's when a solar eclipse will block out most of the sun, leaving a spectacular ring of fire shining in the sky for observers located along the eclipse's path.

The event is what's....Read More...

Bobtail Squid Hitches a Ride on Space Shuttle

Longest Total Lunar Eclipse in 11 Years Occurs Wednesday

NASA Delivers Cargo to Launch Pad for Last-Ever Shuttle Flight

Transit of Venus

Next month we will be the last people living today to witness one of the rarest astronomical events: the transit of Venus. If it’s not cloudy, we need do no more than draw back our curtains on June 6 to see the brightest star of the night transformed into a....Read More...

NASA Wants Help to Spot Asteroid Over Fourth of July Weekend

Hubble Spots Ghostly Space Spiral

ET, Call Us Back! Making the Case for Alien Life

Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere

A time-lapse of Planet Earth, created from images produced by the geostationary Electro-L Weather Satellite. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, and end on May 20th. The images are the largest whole disk images of our planet, each image is 121 megapixels, and the resolution....Read More...

Massive Solar Disturbance & CME April 3rd 2011

Greetings, Human!

Asteroid Mission May Offer Clues into Life's Origins

Light from small alien planet seen

A NASA infrared telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth.

Light from an alien super-Earth twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in what astronomers are....Read More...

Hunting Alien Worlds

Rocket Carrying New NASA Climate Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit

Mars 'hopper' may run on nuclear decay and Martian CO2

Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

On October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel rocket, to an altitude of six miles. Were the Germans really testing out a....Read More...

Attic stored meteorite 'four billion years old'

Galactic collision captured by Nasa's 'Great Observatories'

Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky

Secret Air Force X-37B Space Plane Mission a 'Spectacular Success'

By Leonard David

The U.S. Air Force's secretive robotic X-37B space plane mission continues to chalk up time in Earth orbit, nearing 430 days of a spaceflight that — while classified — appears to be an unqualified success.

The space plane now circuiting Earth is the second spacecraft....Read More...

Dazzling meteor 'fireball' hurtles through the skies above Britain

A Glorious Tribute To The Space Shuttle

Mars500 Mission Begins Today

Star Trek Fans to Launch Kirk & Picard to Edge of Space

By Clara Moskowitz

For the first time ever, TV's beloved Star Trek captains James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard will go boldy into near-space for real —in action figure form. A group of Trekkies has banded together to launch dolls of the two starship captains, as well as other....Read More...

Gemini 4 - Ed White's Spacewalk

Oldest Galaxy Uncloaked by Hubble

For Star-Gazers, September Brings New Night Sky