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06 June 2013, 05:36 PM ET
Stratolaunch has contracted Orbital Sciences Corp. to build the world's largest air-launched space rocket.
06 June 2013, 05:25 PM ET
Titan, like Earth, has a haze of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs.
06 June 2013, 04:35 PM ET
These pioneers may have served as seeds for the supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies today.
06 June 2013, 03:51 PM ET
Water vapors overcome the sun's drying effects on ethereal clouds.
06 June 2013, 03:42 PM ET
The successful second launch attempt of the Space Shuttle Discovery carried a crew of five and the ATLAS 2 into space.
06 June 2013, 02:05 PM ET
The pop star may even shoot a music video in the final frontier.
06 June 2013, 02:04 PM ET
NOAA's Goes-East satellite has captured imagery of the storms development over the last few days (June 4-6, 2013).
06 June 2013, 02:01 PM ET
Sungrazing comets explore regions of the sun's atmosphere off-limits to spacecraft.
06 June 2013, 02:00 PM ET
The object is thought to be a "dust trap" that collects particles flying near it.
06 June 2013, 01:44 PM ET
NASA and LEGO Launch Design Contest to Build Future Air and Space Vehicles
06 June 2013, 01:33 PM ET
Astronomers are mapping our galaxy's more sparsely populated outer fringes.
06 June 2013, 11:26 AM ET
The Mars Science Lab drilled into a rock called 'Cumberland' on May 19th, 2013. The rover had a camera fixated on the task.
06 June 2013, 10:36 AM ET
The Sun erupted with an M1.3-class flare on June 5ht, 2013. The region it came from (Active Region 1762) continues is very energetic and may erupt with a larger M-Class or X-Class flare in coming days, but is not expected to impact Earth.
06 June 2013, 09:11 AM ET
This spectacular space wallpaper from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the globular star cluster NGC 6752 in the southern constellation of Pavo (The Peacock).
06 June 2013, 09:00 AM ET
See eye-popping photos of the night sky by submitted by SPACE.com readers in June 2013.
06 June 2013, 07:11 AM ET
Certain spots on the icy moon are more likely to preserve pristine compounds from Europa's interior ocean.
06 June 2013, 05:42 AM ET
The Knife Edge Galaxy is also known as the Splinter Galaxy.
05 June 2013, 07:39 PM ET
Pisces is one of the largest constellations, and also one of the faintest.
05 June 2013, 06:51 PM ET
There are apparently no plans to study the purported rodent.
05 June 2013, 05:43 PM ET
Europe launched the ATV unmanned cargo vehicle ship "Albert Einstein" Wednesday.
05 June 2013, 04:34 PM ET
Curiosity should depart for the base of Mount Sharp in a few weeks.
05 June 2013, 03:29 PM ET
The hard work needs to begin now, say organizers of an upcoming conference.
05 June 2013, 03:14 PM ET
This space wallpaper from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, next to its parent star.
05 June 2013, 01:53 PM ET
Artists want to wrap a moon rocket entirely in quilts.
05 June 2013, 01:46 PM ET
Experts use GPS, DVDs and even a deli slicer to describe relativity and other notions of time.
