A Zenit-3SL rocket blasted off from the Sea Launch platform today, carrying the Intelsat Americas-8 communications satellite into a geosynchronous…
Few celestial events attract such widespread media attention as what is inappropriately named a planetary alignment. Because of their orbits…
Vacation time's arrived. You're in the car driving to your little piece of heaven. Then, from the depths of the…
The New Horizons mission to Pluto has been called ?The First Mission to the Last Planet,? and it?s the first…
Physicists at MIT have successfully created a new form of matter in their laboratory; a gas that shows superfluidity at…
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a detailed image of a narrow, dusty ring around nearby star Fomalhaut. Although they…
Astronomers have discovered a binary system of a blue giant and a pulsar that operate as a natural particle accelerator,…
The Planetary Society's solar sail prototype Cosmos 1 was launched from a Russian submarine yesterday, but it seems have gone…
All three MARSIS booms on Mars Express are now fully deployed, and the spacecraft is ready to begin searching Mars…
When you look into the night sky with your eyes, or through a telescope, you're seeing the Universe in the…