space

The Rosetta Mission is set to arrive on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. So why this comet and why now?

The private Antares rocket exposed on launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

A European Space Agency satellite that has been in orbit over Earth since 2009 is set to come crashing home on Sunday.

The Space Shuttle program has ended, but part of its many legacies may be this one-of-a-kind look at a shuttle launch. This footage was shot in high definition and with enhanced audio. It shows a shuttle launch with the camera pointing back at Earth. Breathtaking.

What if you learned that years before the human race shot an object into orbit, there were already manufactured objects circling around the Earth? It's the unbelievable tale of the Black Knight Satellite.

Even scientists have soul! Take a listen to 'Jewel in the Night,' by Colonel Chris Hadfield.

All you keep hearing on the news this morning is “The Transit Of Venus”, but what does that even mean? Is it worth anything seeing or worrying about? Well don’t panic, it’s actually pretty cool.

Even in Earth's orbit we suffer from the problem of pollution. Through the years books have been published, and even some of the movies picture some of the garbage. Sometimes this garbage can damage some of our equipment in space.

If you’ve ever dreamed of going to outer space, your wish may soon come true — and you won’t have to join NASA to make it happen.

Stargazers have been debating in slack-jawed amazement after the release of footage captured by the STEREO A satellite.  What looks just like a big blob of red to me has been described in the YouTube video below as a 'cloaked alien craft.'  Others speculate it's a 'ghost image' of Mercury of a blip on the satellite.

It was an extraordinary night for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researchers at Ohio State when an radio signal broke through the white noise. The operator on duty noticed something unexplained that came in from deep space...