27 August 2013, 02:06 PM ET
ISS astronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy tested the suit aboard the International Space Station and found that the helmet continues to leak water. The cause is still under investigation.
27 August 2013, 01:57 PM ET
The historic rocket engine parts that Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos salvaged from the seafloor have now been launched online, providing the public a live view of the multi-year effort to conserve the rare artifacts for future museum displays.
27 August 2013, 01:01 PM ET
A NASA rocket component passed an engine test firing that produced 20,000 pounds of thrust. Liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen successfully passed through the injector and produced 10X more thrust that previous 3-D printed models.
27 August 2013, 12:28 PM ET
Stargazers can spot a fire-breathing dragon in the early evening sky this week. Draco — the celestial dragon — is a large, albeit dim, constellation.
27 August 2013, 12:22 PM ET
Women are career limited by the current lifetime radiation exposure restrictions for astronauts enforced by NASA, astronauts say. Both male and female astronauts are not allowed to accumulate a radiation dose that would increase their lifetime risk of dev
27 August 2013, 12:01 PM ET
Scientists are hoping to induce an unconscious state in astronauts so that they can be stored in cold capsules for long space flights. Here's how astronaut hibernation and suspended animation might one day work.
27 August 2013, 11:35 AM ET
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who experienced a harrowing near-drowning during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station, is telling his story in a new video and blog post. See what Parmitano felt as his spacesuit filled with water.
27 August 2013, 11:22 AM ET
This space wallpaper of Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 combines radio observations acquired with ALMA with much shorter wavelength visible light observations from ESO’s New Technology Telescope.
27 August 2013, 11:14 AM ET
When Canada's rock star astronaut Chris Hadfield visits his birthplace in November, he'll see his dazzling space photos on human bodies. Local Sarnia artist Cat Cabajar has received a small grant to recreate Hadfield's photos as body art.
27 August 2013, 10:15 AM ET
A wildfire raging in Northern California can be seen from space. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg snapped a photo of the blaze from her post aboard the International Space Station on Saturday (Aug. 24).
27 August 2013, 10:12 AM ET
Exoplanet composition, 'buckyballs' and Saturn's widest ring are just a few of the discoveries made by analyzing Spitzer's infrared data. Launched in 2003, the NASA telescope mission will continue, even after exhausting its coolant.
27 August 2013, 10:00 AM ET
An astronaut conducts an experiment outside the Shuttle.
27 August 2013, 08:10 AM ET
If you're a science fiction nut like everyone here at SPACE.com, you most likely have already had an encounter or two with time travel. But astrophysicist Eric W. Davis says time travel could one day be real. All you need is a wormhole.
27 August 2013, 07:32 AM ET
The first launch of Japan's newest rocket, the next-generation Epsilon booster, hit a major snag Tuesday (Aug. 27), forcing the country's space agency to call off the attempt. The glitch occurred late in the Epsilon rocket countdown.
27 August 2013, 07:28 AM ET
See stunning Blue Moon photos by SPACE.com readers sent in during the August 2013 full moon. It was a technical Blue Moon, as the third full moon of four summer full moons. It was not the second full moon in August.
27 August 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The new radar images show the asteroid 2005 WK4 as it passed Earth on Aug. 8 at a safe distance of 1.93 million miles (3.1 million kilometers), which is about 8.2 times the distance between Earth and the moon. It is nearly 980 feet wide.
27 August 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Stargazer and photographer Stefano De Rosa snapped this stunning beautiful photo of the Blue Moon full moon of August rising over and Italian castle on Aug. 20, 2013. See how De Rosa captured the photo here.
26 August 2013, 06:43 PM ET
Some scientists think the sun is part of a binary system and that it has a companion star that affects life on Earth.
26 August 2013, 06:15 PM ET
The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February likely had a near miss before it hit Earth, possibly with another solar system object or a too-close graze by the sun, scientists have found.
26 August 2013, 06:12 PM ET
Hiding in the recesses of a dead star is an ultra-strong magnetic field bursting from its surface in the form of X-rays, astronomers report.
26 August 2013, 05:49 PM ET
A new satellite will bundle observations of Venus, Mars and Jupiter into one mission — without needing to leave Earth's orbit.
26 August 2013, 04:59 PM ET
The Canadian Space Agency is famous for its astronaut program and robotics technology.
26 August 2013, 04:14 PM ET
Robots designed for spaceflight could help engineers on the ground build a better car. A new three-year study will examine the ways that robots on the International Space Station send and receive messages.
26 August 2013, 03:58 PM ET
Changes in temperature, rainfall and wind speed over the next 77 years increases the likelihood of extreme fire events across large portions of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
26 August 2013, 02:45 PM ET
Japan has an extra-smart rocket cued up at the launch pad for a ride into space. The country's space agency plans to fire its first Epsilon rocket into orbit on Aug. 27 to demonstrate it is possible for a rocket to do its own health checks using AI.
26 August 2013, 01:30 PM ET
In this Ford marketing video, technical leader Oleg Gusikhin talks about how the car company is studying Space Station To Earth communications and its application to safer driving.
26 August 2013, 12:39 PM ET
In "The Rocket That Grandpa Rode," a song off Jimmy Buffett's first album in four years, the man from Margaritaville sings about the man on the moon.
26 August 2013, 11:26 AM ET
The planet Neptune reaches opposition this week and you can catch live telescope views of the blue gas giant planet tonight (Aug. 26) in a special hour-long webcast by the Slooh Space Camera. Find out how to see it.
26 August 2013, 10:39 AM ET
The Vought F-8A, dubbed the TF-8A, was used to test the experimental Supercritical Wing airfoil.
26 August 2013, 09:53 AM ET
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array on Sep. 2, Alex Cherney (terrastro.com) compiled video of the array located near near Narrabri, NSW, Australia. Watch for kangaroos!
26 August 2013, 09:22 AM ET
From more than 40 countries and 30 U.S. states, people around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission as seen in this cool space wallpaper.
26 August 2013, 06:36 AM ET
By the time humanity is ready to put boots on Mars, the long cruise to the Red Planet may be as easy as a dream. NASA-funded scientists are investigating ways to induce hibernation in astronauts, which could make the Mars trip cheaper and more efficient.
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