The space startup company Infinity2Space moves closer to the concept of Bloostar, or launching satellites into orbit via balloon.
With a long history of contributing to space exploration, the Canadian Space Agency is looking for the next generation of…
We toast the 40th anniversary of the dual Viking missions to Mars this week. Time to celebrate an achievement that…
A decade of high-tech scanning has confirmed that the Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient astronomical computer.
The Egyptian boy-king's blade was made 600 years before Egypt had iron-smelting technology.
Watch that Moon this weekend, as it crosses the dawn sky, meets up with Mercury, and ushers in Ramadan 2016.
Why this weekend's Full Moon is considered 'blue'... but not in the usual sense.
How astronomers found an potentially new and exciting exoplanetary system lurking on a glass plate stored away for nearly a…
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.
The close call experienced by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is only one of the most recent brushes with catastrophe…