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Wed, May 15, 2013 11:08 AM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com
The clouds of dust and gas in the red-tinted image might look as if they're burning hot, they are actually freezing cold.
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Wed, May 15, 2013 9:38 AM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com
Gravity, space radiation and artificial lighting are just some of considerations in feeding manned missions to Mars.
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Tue, May 14, 2013 2:07 PM by Megan Gannon, SPACE.com
The material is thought to be leftover from terrestrial planets that formed when these stars were first born.
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Tue, May 14, 2013 10:13 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com
The flares are the result of built up magnetic energy on the sun being released.
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Tue, May 14, 2013 9:53 AM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com
The three astronauts orbited the Earth 2,300 times and logged 61 million miles during their 144 days on the International Space Station.
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Tue, May 14, 2013 6:40 AM by Clara Moskowitz
The planet, officially known as Kepler-76b, is 25 percent larger than Jupiter and weighs about twice as much.
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Mon, May 13, 2013 2:10 PM by Robert Z. Pearlman, SPACE.com
The evening is planned as 'an educational' evening about the United States' first woman in space.
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Mon, May 13, 2013 11:16 AM by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com
The Soyuz landing tonight will mark the end of the station's Expedition 35 mission.
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Mon, May 13, 2013 10:40 AM by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com
The solar flare erupted from an active sunspot on the far side of the sun, so it was not directly facing Earth when it unleashed a wave of super-hot plasma.
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Mon, May 13, 2013 9:34 AM
Video: Astronaut Chris Hadfield released his own cover of the David Bowie song online.
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Fri, May 10, 2013 4:15 PM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com
The moon passed directly in front of our sun but didn't block it out completely.
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Fri, May 10, 2013 12:07 PM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com
The crew isn't in any danger from the coolant leak.
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Fri, May 10, 2013 9:21 AM by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com
Scientists suspect that water-bringing meteorites likely originated from the edge of the solar system's asteroid belt.
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Fri, May 10, 2013 7:50 AM by Mike Wall, Space.com
NASA first noticed a leak in this same cooling loop in 2007, but the rate of ammonia loss was so low back then that immediate action was not required.
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Thu, May 09, 2013 12:07 PM by Russell McLendon
If humans still exist millions or billions of years from now, they'll have to deal with supervolcanoes, supernovas and other civilization-threatening calamities.
