08 September 2013, 01:34 PM ET
From a spectacular reader photos of the LADEE launch to a dazzling fireball, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Sept. 8, 2013.
08 September 2013, 11:19 AM ET
Hello, Space Fans! NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins is counting down to launch to the International Space Station on Sept. 25, and SPACE.com will chat about his upcoming departure from planet Earth on Monday, Sept. 9. How to watch live.
08 September 2013, 09:23 AM ET
About 45 minutes after sunset on Sunday (Sept. 8), look toward the west-southwest horizon to see Venus hovering rather close to a waxing crescent moon — an eye-catching tableau in spite of the pair's low altitude in the night sky.
08 September 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Forty-seven years ago today, a science fiction icon was born that would live long, and definitely prosper. I'm talking, of course, about the original TV series of "Star Trek," which launched the U.S.S. Enterprise into our hearts on Sept.
07 September 2013, 03:34 PM ET
See photos of NASA's LADEE moon dust mission to probe the lunar atmosphere as the probe launches toward the moon from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 6, 2013.
07 September 2013, 03:30 PM ET
SPACE.com readers sent in great shots of the launch of NASA's LADEE moon mission, which soared into the sky atop a Minotaur V rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on the night of Sept. 6, 2013.
07 September 2013, 03:07 PM ET
Engineers have fixed a technical glitch on NASA's newest robotic moon explorer, bringing the spacecraft back up to full health one day after a spectacular nighttime launch Friday that wowed spectators up and down the U.S. East Coast.
07 September 2013, 05:10 AM ET
NASA's spectacular nighttime launch of a new moon probe late Friday (Sept. 6) promised to amaze spectators up and down the U.S. East Coast. See spectacular photos of the LADEE moon mission launch.
07 September 2013, 02:59 AM ET
NASA is taking a close look at what appears to be a minor attitude control glitch on its LADEE moon probe that cropped up shortly after the spacecraft's launch from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Sept. 6, 2013.
07 September 2013, 12:04 AM ET
NASA's LADEE mission launched from Wallops Flight Facility on September 6th, 2013. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission will study the Moon's atmosphere.
06 September 2013, 11:36 PM ET
NASA began a new trek to the moon Friday night (Sept. 6) with a dazzling launch from Virginia that sent a spacecraft soaring toward Earth's nearest neighbor to probe the thin lunar atmosphere and, just maybe, solve a 40-year space mystery.
06 September 2013, 09:43 PM ET
Launching a probe to the moon can be a sweet experience for scientists that have spent years developing a spacecraft, and visitors to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility can get a taste of the exciting moment themselves.
06 September 2013, 09:27 PM ET
See photos and images from NASA's LADEE mission to study moon dust and the lunar atmosphere like never before. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer launches in 2013 to probe the moon's tenuous atmosphere.
06 September 2013, 05:06 PM ET
NASA's next moon-bound probe may look small in person, but it's responsible for potentially answering some big moon mysteries.
06 September 2013, 05:01 PM ET
Serial innovator Elon Musk is living up to his reputation as a real-life Tony Stark. In a new video, Musk shows off the excessively cool "Iron Man"-like tech that is quite literally at his fingertips inside the rocket-making labs of his company SpaceX.
06 September 2013, 04:11 PM ET
This space wallpaper shows a set of images from NASA's Cassini mission that reveal the turbulent power of a monster Saturn storm.
06 September 2013, 03:54 PM ET
A new exhibit dedicated to the Delta Clipper Experimental rocket, or DC-X for short, is being prepared for display at the New Mexico Space History Museum, and officials hope to build a replica of the pioneering prototype over the next year.
06 September 2013, 02:53 PM ET
Bill Nye is the next celebrity scientist to strut their stuff on the show "Dancing with the Stars"
06 September 2013, 02:32 PM ET
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured two stunning videos of solar eclipses from the surface of Mars, including one that shows the Red Planet's skies darkening above the 1-ton robot. Curiosity recorded the eclipses on Aug. 19 and Aug. 20.
06 September 2013, 02:23 PM ET
A camera was strapped to the rear of the Virgin Galactic vehicle to capture footage of the rocket engines and feather system at work. The vehicles 2nd powered flight occurred on September 5th, 2013.
06 September 2013, 01:27 PM ET
Twenty years after it made its first flight, the Delta Clipper Experimental, or DC-X, is getting its day in a museum. An exhibit honoring the reusable rocket prototype is being prepared at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.
06 September 2013, 01:22 PM ET
There isn't anything else quite like standing in front of a brand new rocket before it launches.
06 September 2013, 01:13 PM ET
An astronaut working onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has revealed his "lucky charm" — a miniature toy astronaut figurine — in a video recently sent down to Earth.
06 September 2013, 12:14 PM ET
A laser communications experiment aboard NASA's LADEE spacecraft, which is launching tonight, could open up interplanetary bandwidth possibilities for high-speed transmissions — including 3D video during robotic asteroid landings.
06 September 2013, 12:09 PM ET
NASA's Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration is a novel test of next-generation communications tech. See how the system works in this SPACE.com infographic.
06 September 2013, 11:32 AM ET
The Mars Science Laboratory captured imagery of Mars' moon Phobos eclipsing the Sun on August 19th, 2013. It also captured the shadow cast by the eclipse.
06 September 2013, 10:16 AM ET
Watch billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk pull a Tony Stark as he reveals the future of rocket design, an interactive ‘Iron Man’-like computer interface that uses gestures.
06 September 2013, 09:59 AM ET
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this airplane that was created by the Wright Brothers' arose for a few seconds to make the first powered, heavier-than-air controlled flight in history.
06 September 2013, 08:48 AM ET
The United States Air Force is teaming up with the military's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) on a new project to test the capabilities of hypersonic flight, according to military officials.
06 September 2013, 06:06 AM ET
NASA will launch a new spacecraft Friday night (Sept. 6) to unlock the secret of moon dust and the wispy lunar atmosphere, and you can watch the blastoff live online. Here's how to watch NASA's LADEE moon probe launch at 11:27 p.m. EDT.
06 September 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's private spaceship flew higher and faster than it ever had before on Thursday (Sept. 5), giving company officials confidence that the vehicle is on track to start carrying passengers on suborbital jaunts next year.
06 September 2013, 01:28 AM ET
A veteran Russian cosmonaut who was assigned to command the International Space Station in 2015 has unexpectedly resigned. Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov tendered his resignation to the Russian federal space agency Thursday (Sept. 5).
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