Fancy yourself an asteroid hunter? There's $35,000 available in prizes for NASA's new Asteroid Data Hunter contest series, which will…
After four months behind the sun from Earth's perspective, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is back in view -- and brighter than ever! New…
The historic blast off of the first SpaceX rocket equipped with ‘landing legs’ and also carrying a private Dragon cargo…
Yutu rover drives around Chang’e-3 lander – from Above And Below Composite view shows China’s Yutu rover and tracks driving…
Planetary shields up: solar storms inbound… Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have identified…
The International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit The sole way for every American and station partner astronaut to…
As the International Space Station prepares to host its first one-year visit next year, it's worth remembering that NASA didn't…
NASA is prepared to axe an airborne telescope to keep "higher-priority" programs such as the Saturn Cassini mission going, according…
Astronauts are expected to leave the International Space Station on schedule next week, and training continues on the ground, despite…
This time-lapse color panorama from China’s Chang’e-3 lander shows the Yutu rover at two different positions during its trek over…