Chris Hadfield On Space-y $5 Bill: ‘It Reminds Us That Our Dreams Do Not Have A Limit’
In Canada, "gimme five" could soon have a space connotation. Today the country announced it is preparing to put new…
Newly Released Security Cam Video Shows Chelyabinsk Meteorite Impact in Lake Chebarkul
Security camera video showing the impact of the largest piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite striking Lake Chebarkul during the Feb.…
‘Freakish’ Asteroid Has Six Tails, Sheds Stuff Into Space
A lawn sprinkler in space. That's one of the descriptions NASA has for the curious P/2013 P5, which is spewing not…
Comet ISON Heats Up, Grows New Tail
I'm starting to get the chills about Comet ISON. I can't help it. With practically every telescope turned the comet's…
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Rising to Red Planet – Glorious Launch Gallery
Clouds on the ground ! The sky seems inverted for a moment ! Blastoff of India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)…
Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch
Update: the crew has now arrived safely at the ISS. You can watch the arrival video below. Three new crew…
Spectacular Halo Around the Sun Seen in Africa
Fresh off seeing a solar eclipse on Sunday, people across the southern parts of Africa witnessed another solar spectacle today,…
Early Supermassive Black Holes First Formed as Twins
It's one of the puzzles of cosmology and stellar evolution: how did supermassive black holes get so... well, supermassive... in the…
Lovely Green Olivine On Vesta Paints A Different Formation History
That ghoul-like sheen on the asteroid Vesta, as seen in the image above, is not some leftover of Hallowe'en. It's…
Bright Venus Takes Center Stage in November
“What’s that bright object to the southwest at dusk?” We’ve already fielded more than a few such questions as Earth’s…