30 August 2013, 03:37 PM ET
Thirty years ago Friday (Aug. 30), Guion "Guy" Bluford became the first African-American in space, launching into low-Earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
30 August 2013, 03:20 PM ET
NASA administrator Charles Bolden talks about the contributions of former astronaut Guy Bluford, who became the first African American in space in 1983.
30 August 2013, 02:28 PM ET
Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be sharing the September nights' sky with the Moon, and toward the end of the month, comet ISON will line up with Mars.
30 August 2013, 02:04 PM ET
Apollo astronauts repeatedly saw a weird glow four decades ago. Now NASA is launching the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) probe, which will communicate by laser, to learn what’s going on near the Moon’s surface.
30 August 2013, 01:03 PM ET
As we kick off the Labor Day holiday weekend, early on Saturday (Aug. 31) during the predawn hours, check out the east-northeast sky anytime after 2 a.m. local daylight time and your eyes will immediately be drawn to the two brightest objects in the sky a
30 August 2013, 01:01 PM ET
In the coming decade, three enormous telescopes will come online. See how the Giant Magellan Telescope, European Extremely Large Telescope and Thirty Meter Telescope will stack up in this SPACE.com infographic.
30 August 2013, 11:14 AM ET
This space wallpaper shows part of a set of three images revealing views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
30 August 2013, 09:55 AM ET
Two Apollo 16 astronauts inspect the Lunar Roving Vehicle before their mission.
30 August 2013, 09:07 AM ET
Finnish photographer Thomas Kast took this stunning shot of a lunar 'fog bow' on a cold, foggy night around 1 a.m. local time on Aug. 25, from Yli-Ii, Finland. See how he did it here.
30 August 2013, 09:00 AM ET
Stargazer Thomas Heaton captured this stunning shot of Perseid meteor streaking across the night sky over Edlington castle in Northumberland, England on Aug. 12.
30 August 2013, 06:20 AM ET
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have glimpsed a monster black hole disgorging a high-speed, spiraling jet of superheated plasma that looks like a slinky stretching and reforming in outer space.
30 August 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Stargazer B.G Boyd snapped this amazing image of a starry night and purple sky not long before sunrise in August 2013. See how he did it here.
30 August 2013, 05:59 AM ET
Does NASA's bold plan to drag an asteroid near the moon run afoul of 1967's Outer Space Treaty, which provides the basic framework of international space law, or 1972's Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects?
29 August 2013, 06:24 PM ET
Matt Damon is off on another sci-fi adventure. Fresh off his star turn in this year's blockbuster "Elysium," the actor will play a small role in the upcoming thriller "Interstellar," which is scheduled to come out in November 2014.
29 August 2013, 06:02 PM ET
The new movie "Gravity" — a thriller starring actors Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts — launched into the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday (Aug. 29).
29 August 2013, 05:57 PM ET
Flags have been lowered to half-staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., to honor the passing of its former director, planetary scientist Bruce C. Murray, who died today (Aug. 29) at age 81 after a long illness.
29 August 2013, 05:11 PM ET
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's former director talks about the mission that completed fly-bys of Venus and Mercury in the 1970's.
29 August 2013, 05:00 PM ET
On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard was locked into his capsule Freedom 7, ready to become the first American and second person ever in space. But before his 15-minute historic flight, Shepard would sit through five hours of delays — and he really
29 August 2013, 04:09 PM ET
"Space tourism" is "buzzworthy," according to a prominent dictionary, which added the word to its lexicon this week.
29 August 2013, 04:01 PM ET
A 460-mile-long stretch of canyon was discovered underneath Greenland's ice sheet by NASA's Operation IceBridge. It runs from the center of the island to the fjord of the Petermann Glacier.
29 August 2013, 03:50 PM ET
NASA has granted funding to six next-generation tech concepts that could help advance humanity's understanding and exploration of the cosmos down the road. The ideas were selected under Phase 2 of the NASA Innovative Concepts program.
29 August 2013, 03:17 PM ET
The glowing colors and dancing lines of the Northern Lights could soon appear inside an educational institution near you.
29 August 2013, 02:34 PM ET
Hubble and Chandra Space Telescopes combined data to produce these views of Sagittarius A*. Less than 1% of the hot gas around this black hole will actually 'fall' into it.
29 August 2013, 02:00 PM ET
The Milky Way's giant black hole turns out to be a messy eater. Of all the gas that falls toward it, 99 percent gets spewed back out into space, new observations show.
29 August 2013, 02:00 PM ET
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected, novel kind of triangle in the sky — one whose points are the sun, Uranus and a first Trojan asteroid ever seen near the tilted planet. The discovery is the first known "Trojan asteroid" for Uranus.
29 August 2013, 02:00 PM ET
Trojan asteroids are space rocks that share the orbit of a planet in positions ofd stable gravitational balance called Lagrangian points. This orbit animation of asteroid 2011 QF99 shows its motion from a 'north-pole' view of the galaxy.
29 August 2013, 01:40 PM ET
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar eclipse as seen from the Red Planet. The 1-ton robot snapped pictures as Phobos, the larger of Mars' two tiny moons, blotted out much of the solar disk on Aug. 20.
29 August 2013, 12:56 PM ET
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6, as seen in this amazing space wallpaper.
29 August 2013, 12:22 PM ET
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6 as seen in this space wallpaper.
29 August 2013, 12:09 PM ET
NASA's All-Sky cameras captured a very bright meteor burning up in the atmosphere at the same time that the Moon was in the camera field of view. Early estimates: meteor weighed ~240lbs and was traveling ~56,000 mph.
29 August 2013, 10:31 AM ET
The X-15 rocket powered aircraft taken aloft under the wing of a B-52.
29 August 2013, 10:15 AM ET
This cool space wallpaper is an artist's concept showing the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth.
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