Scientists at MIT, Cardiff University, and elsewhere have observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of Earth's planetary neighbor, Venus

New video recorded during NASA’s Orion return through Earth’s atmosphere provides viewers a taste of what the vehicle endured as it returned through Earth’satmosphere during its Dec. 5, 2014 flight test. The video begins 10 minutes before Orion's 11:29 a.m. EST splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, just

This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars, taken by the MARDI descent imager. As of August 20, all but a dozen 1600x1200 frames have been uploaded from the rover, and those missing were interpolated using thumbnail data. The result was applied a heavy noise reduct...

The year's first supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its slightly closer position to Earth, is one of two lunar events Sunday January 20, 2019. A total eclipse was also visible in North and South America, and parts of Europe.The only total lunar eclipse of 2019...

Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

SUCCESS! With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket deliverED 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things solutions. The ORBCOMM launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The 11 satellites were deplo

NASA is so sure the world will not come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after. Despite what the Mayan calendar may seem to say or doomsayers claim, NASA remains 100% confident that the world will not coming to an end in 2012.

A tour of Quito Ecuador in South America. We visited the Middle of the World and Museum. The country was aptly named after the equator when Finnish scientists in the 1800s declared it the prime place on Earth to measure the equator’s bulge. Thanks to this, Mount Chimborazo (6310m) in the country’s

In LUCY IN THE SKY, Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she’s deeply moved by .the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy’s world suddenly feels too small, her connection with real

NASA announced that its Curiosity rover had discovered organic material—carbon containing molecules that are essential building blocks for life—within Gale Crater, a 3.5 billion-year-old bedrock that scientists believed might have held a lake. The Curiosity rover also confirmed signs of methane—the