A private group preparing to repurpose a 36-year-old spacecraft from afar is in Puerto Rico this week, trying to make contact with the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) probe with the powerful Arecibo Telescope....
The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer successfully completed its first flight on March 22nd, 2014. The truck and its eight propellors can perform autonomous casualty evacuation and cargo resupply missions. ...
See photos and images of NASA's ISEE-3 spacecraft, a probe launched in 1978 that is returning for an Earth flyby in August 2014, in this Space.com gallery....
If you've ever wondered what the view of Earth from space would be like set to a Pink Floyd soundtrack, wonder no more. The English band is using amazing views from the International Space Station to countdown to the May 20 launch of something....
This space wallpaper is an artist’s view showing the planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris. This exoplanet is the first to have its rotation rate measured. ...
A new meteor shower that will blaze up in the early hours of Saturday morning could be spectacular, if Jupiter's gravity has shepherded particles shed by Comet 209P/LINEAR tightly together....
The jetpack was demoed at the Smithsonian Magazine hosted event on Saturday May 17th, 2014 in Washington D.C.....
Wubbo Ockels, who in 1985 became the first Dutch citizen to fly into space, died Sunday (May 18), the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed. He was 68....
In the winter of 1997-1998, severe weather events were recorded across the continental U.S.. For month leading in the winter, warm (El Niño) conditions persisted in the Pacific Ocean. NASA's Jason-2 satellite is monitoring in 2014. ...
While it was never an official NASA program, FLATs helped pave the way for the first female Shuttle pilot....
A NASA space telescope captured an amazing view of a new supernova, cutting through the cosmic smoke to see the star explosion in the relatively nearby Cigar Galaxy....
Billionaire Elon Musk says his private spaceflight company SpaceX has made some progress toward a permanent colony on Mars — a long-time goal in the entrepreneur's push to help make humanity a multi-planet species....
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Back in the early 1930s, Arcturus made the front page of every newspaper in the United States, when the star was used to symbolically link two great world fairs that were separated by a span of 40 years. ...
SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today (May 18), bringing more than 1,000 lbs. of science cargo back to Earth from the International Space Station....
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule departed the International Space Station today, putting it on a path back to Earth after about one month attached to the orbiting outpost....
From the moon occulting Saturn to the earthgrazer meteor, don't miss these spectacular objects to watch in the night sky....
From two neutron stars merging to Jupiter's shrinking spot, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 17, 2014....
A new GPS satellite launched to space atop a Delta 4 rocket from Florida on May 16, 2014....
A replacement Global Positioning System spacecraft for the world's best-known satellite constellation ascended into orbit Friday night aboard a Delta 4 rocket in a spectacular sendoff at sunset....