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"…
Cometary Collisions Could Have Created Life On Earth
The energy of comets smashing into Earth billions of years ago could have generated life out of the building blocks…