U.K. and German Astronomers announced this week that they have discovered a new "super Earth" planet that could, conceivably, have an Earth-like climate.
The...
The results of a paper on Jupiter's atmosphere were released by NASA today, and it appears that big changes are happening for the solar system's biggest planet. Among the roiling...
On Sunday, Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier, and set world records as he jumped from outer space to the Earth below. The event was the result of five years of preparation,...
The Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) this morning. The docking represents another as-planne...
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) yesterday evening launched its Dragon spacecraft into orbit from Cape Canaveral. The Dragon was lifted by a Falcon 9 rocket at 8:35 am, rig...
Having checked-in at nearly every place on Earth, it's about time Foursquare users have moved on to another planet. But in order to do this, the social network needed a brand new...
NASA this week is preparing for the first SpaceX launch under its Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. NASA has not had the capability, on its own, to deliver and return c...
NASA's original video of the Curiosity rover's descent was amazing, fascinating, incredible, awe-inspiring, and worthy of every other superlative you can think of. But the video w...
NASA is set to relive history as it happened today, and they want you to come along for the ride. At exactly 11:15 am ET, NASA TV will ait a high quality stream of President Kenne...
The current Curiosity rover mission to Mars just keeps getting cooler by the day, as NASA continues to release new images from the rover's main cameras. Looking at the surface of...
NASA announced on Friday that it has selected five technologies to fund, which could "revolutionize America's space capabilities".
Earlier this year, NASA launched its...
National Geographic's Chasing UFOs sent about 20,000 tweets to space, in response to the "Wow! Signal". It's a crowdsourced project aimed at telling beings in outer space a bit ab...