Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole? A New Theory Of The Universe’s Creation
Could the famed "Big Bang" theory need a revision? A group of theoretical physicists suppose the birth of the universe…
Watch Live: Commercial Antares Rocket Launches to Space Station
UPDATE: Orbital Sciences successfully launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 10:58 a.m. EDT Wednesday from the…
Advanced Satellite Blasts Off from Cape Canaveral: Launch Gallery
Early this morning a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a gorgeous pre-dawn launch,…
Tonight’s Harvest Moon Is For The Birds … Really!
Tonight's the Harvest Moon, the full Moon closest to the fall equinox. A perfect time to catch a big orange…
Proof! – Frogs Jump at Chance to Board Rockets to Space from NASA Wallops during Antares booster Rollout
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – Have you seen the NASA frog? The one that became famous worldwide last week following the…
Win a Copy of Homer Hickam’s “Crescent”
Homer Hickam's latest series of books depicts life on the Moon in the next century. But it's not a utopia.…
Book Review: ‘Crescent’ By Homer Hickam
You probably know Homer Hickam from his book “Rocket Boys” and the movie, “October Sky.” But Hickam’s repertoire of 15-plus…
Sleek GOCE Spacecraft Will Have Uncontrolled Re-entry into Earth’s Atmosphere
The sleek and sexy-looking GOCE spacecraft has been mapping Earth’s gravity for over four years, but soon its xenon fuel…
Is There Really a Planet X?
Have you heard there’s a giant planet in the Solar System headed straight towards Earth? At some point in the…
Carnival of Space #319
Another week, another Carnival of Space! This week's CoS is hosted by our pay Ray Sanders at his "Dear Astronomer"…