The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, now scheduled for April, is billed as a demonstration mission to show the world a private company can safely deliver cargo to the […]

NASA said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside the solar system, all of them orbiting too close to their host stars to sustain life.

The findings nearly double the […]

Comets are vaporized by the sun daily, but this was the first time technology has allowed NASA to observe a comet being vaporized as it approached the sun, the space agency reported.

In an article published in […]

A recently published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America indicates that the essential building blocks for early life on Earth may have indeed been delivered […]

On Friday at 12:25 a.m. EDT, Juno launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to Jupiter. Juno, a NASA spacecraft, will orbit and analyze Jupiter.

Scientists hope that the spacecraft’s […]

The Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt fell into the Pacific Ocean some 1,250 kilometers west of Wellington, Chile yesterday after circling in Earth orbit for two months. The spacecraft was designed to retrieve soil […]

Fifteen meteorites that fell to Earth during a meteor shower in July of 2011 have been confirmed to be from Mars. The rocks, discovered in Morocco, were likely ejected off the surface of the planet during an […]

NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich […]