17 September 2013, 03:52 PM ET
A new commercial spacecraft built to haul cargo to the International Space Station will launch into space from Virginia's Eastern Shore Wednesday, and it just might be visible from a wide swath of the U.S. East Coast. Here's how to see it.
17 September 2013, 03:27 PM ET
Europe's VLT Survey Telescope set its sights on the enormous stellar nursery (~250 light-years across) and has delivered a breathtaking view of the hot new-born stars and surrounding clouds. Featuring music by Molly Durnin (www.mollydurnin.com).
17 September 2013, 02:10 PM ET
The first American space traveler to follow his astronaut father into orbit is selling some of his memorabilia, including a model based on a rocket designed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russia's "father of space travel."
17 September 2013, 12:36 PM ET
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, nestled on a quaint stretch of Virginia's rural coastline, has an active autumn launch schedule this year, one sign a nearly $150 million investment by state and federal governments is starting to pay off.
17 September 2013, 11:05 AM ET
This space wallpaper shows the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy aboard, near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Sept. 11, 2013.
17 September 2013, 11:04 AM ET
The celestial object known as 3552 Don Quixote is classified as an asteroid, but researchers have long believed it to be a "dead" comet stripped of its ices. But Don Quixote is actually a live, sopping wet comet, a new study reports.
17 September 2013, 10:50 AM ET
By using the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (and adjusting brightness), this unique view of the moon has been created.
17 September 2013, 09:55 AM ET
An inflight photograph of the Douglas D-558-1 #3 Skystreak, a research aircraft used by NACA.
17 September 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Anomalies discovered during a Sept. 12 hot-fire test, coupled with upcoming missile tests at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, have delayed the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket to the end of September, CEO Elon Musk said Sunday
17 September 2013, 07:00 AM ET
An unmanned private space capsule is about to launch atop a rocket from Virginia on a trip to the International Space Station. SPACE.com compiled this handy cheat sheet to help you keep SpaceX's Dragon and Orbital Sciences' Cygnus straight.
17 September 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Scientists have embarked on a five-year quest to map one-eighth of the entire sky looking for clues about dark energy, the mysterious force believed to be responsible for the ever-accelerating expansion of the universe.
16 September 2013, 08:17 PM ET
A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows an enormous collection of galaxies and star clusters in stunning detail. Hubble spied 10,000 or so of the estimated 160,000 globular star groupings thought to reside in the galaxy cluster Abell 1689.
16 September 2013, 06:59 PM ET
In an old World War II-hangar in blistering hot Mojave, Calif., a passionate group of young aerospace engineers is building the private spaceship called Lynx, which is the main competitor of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.
16 September 2013, 06:00 PM ET
Sail ships might be the spacecraft that first take human technology to distant stars. Giant sails propelled by the sun's or a laser's energy could be the most viable option for interstellar spaceflight in the not-too-distant future.
16 September 2013, 05:34 PM ET
A tiny asteroid discovered just last week is set to zip by Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 18), passing between our planet and the moon. It is small enough and distant enough that it poses no threat to people.
16 September 2013, 05:30 PM ET
A large enough sail would provide thrust from the pressure of sunlight and, perhaps, laser light beamed from afar, allowing a probe to cover vast distances with no need for fuel.
16 September 2013, 05:03 PM ET
The Cygnus spacecraft, which is built by aerospace firm Orbital Sciences, passed its launch readiness review and is now set to lift off Wednesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, officials announced Monday (Sept. 16).
16 September 2013, 04:56 PM ET
The explosive collisions of icy comets with planets and moons generated the vital building blocks of life, spreading these necessary ingredients throughout the solar system, researchers say. Comets are known to possess organic compounds. Scientists have l
16 September 2013, 03:46 PM ET
Orbital Sciences Corp. is slated to be the second private American company to dock a spacecraft with the International Space Station.
16 September 2013, 03:30 PM ET
High-speed eruptions of charged particles from the sun may be to blame for recent failures of satellites that people rely on to watch TV and use the Internet, a new study finds.
16 September 2013, 01:38 PM ET
Orbital Sciences Corporation looks to become the second commercial company to ship cargo to the International Space Station. The un-manned Cygnus spacecraft would dock to ISS with the help of the station's robotic arm.
16 September 2013, 12:28 PM ET
Moonrise for several days around the time of the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox occurs nearly at sunset. Before artificial lighting, this gave farmers extra time to cut and move ripened crops.
16 September 2013, 12:28 PM ET
Standing high in the northern part of the sky this week at around 11 p.m. local time is a spire-like figure of five stars pointing northward.
16 September 2013, 11:39 AM ET
The space rock, named 2013 RZ53, was discovered on September 13th, 2013, by astronomers at the University of Arizona. It will come within 230,000 miles of the Earth on September 18th and is about 10 feet wide.
16 September 2013, 10:47 AM ET
Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard stands next to the "rickshaw."
16 September 2013, 10:36 AM ET
Humanity has reached a bottleneck this century: Technical developments could cause catastrophic damage to the planet, or they could save us from our man-made quandary.
16 September 2013, 09:36 AM ET
This space wallpaper shows the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy aboard, as it lands near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Sept. 11, 2013.
16 September 2013, 07:00 AM ET
This Thursday's full moon carries the title of "Harvest Moon" for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. But what gives the special moon its name?
16 September 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Veteran night sky photographer Justin Ng of Singapore captured this spectacular photo of galaxies over East Java's Mount Bromo volcano at sunrise. See how he did it.
16 September 2013, 06:01 AM ET
Alien moons around distant worlds may not be big enough to possess magnetic fields strong enough to protect extraterrestrial life from radiation that may blast it from deep space and nearby stars, researchers say.
15 September 2013, 11:00 AM ET
NASA's Voyager 1 probe has made space exploration history by becoming the first spacecraft from Earth to leave the solar system behind and enter interstellar space. See our full coverage of NASA's Voyager 1 announcement on Sept. 12, 2013.
15 September 2013, 10:16 AM ET
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