A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket launched on Oct. 7, 2015, from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. The rocket deployed … More

We always say that the Universe is trying to kill you. But seriously… it wants you dead. The Bad Astronomer … More

A fire broke out at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, damaging an out-of-use building that was … More

A long, exhausting hike was worth the effort for astrophotographer Justin Majeczky who captured this stunning image of the Milky … More

Giant comets in the planetary fringes of the solar system may pose a greater threat to Earth than do asteroids, … More

NASA spacecraft got up close and personal with two separate dwarf planets, and two private spaceflight companies pulled off rocket … More

New images of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in its closest-ever dip toward the surface, show … More

This past fall, astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky … More

The striking feature in this image, acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19, 2014, … More