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New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications
Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision
Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA
Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today
Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed
SpaceX's Falcon Launches... Sort Of
Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock
Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA
32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope
The Financial Future of Space Travel
New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly
First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found
No Naked Black Holes
Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth
Found In Space (On Flickr)
Russia's Mars Mission Raising Concerns
Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner
Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space
Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game"
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe
Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia
Spacecraft Buzzes By Mercury
Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery?
Indian Moon Mission Launched
Colliding Galaxies Reveal Colossal Black Holes
Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station
SpaceX's Fourth Launch Attempt RSN
The Phoenix Has Landed
Urine Passes NASA Taste Test
Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA
NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars
Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami
Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964
India Launches 10 Satellites At Once
Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane
Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist
Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter
Comet Lulin Closest To Earth Tonight
ESA Unveils Re-Entry Module
Saturn's Rings May Be Very Old
NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet
NASA Plans Probe to the Sun
Depressed Astronauts Might Get Computerized Solace
SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets
Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms
Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed
Virgin Galactic Signs Historic Lease Agreement
Using Lasers and Water Guns To Clean Space Debris
Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two
Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station
NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control
Small Asteroid Making 400,000 Mile Pass By Earth
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip
ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions
What You Don't Know About Living in Space
Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
Discovery Launch Delayed Due To Engine Issue
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop
Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008
Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing?
Lots of Pure Water Ice At Mars North Pole
SpaceX Flight 4 Launch Postponed
Russia to Search For Life on Europa
US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS
Gates to join Simonyi in Space?
Adopt-a-Star To Fund Research
"Burning Walls" May Stop Black Hole Formation
'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way
2008, The Year of the Spaceship
Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress
Astronaut to Attempt Spacewalk Record
Astronauts Hook Up Harmony in Lengthy Spacewalk
Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet
Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet
Black Hole Swallows Star
Can Space Nerds Get Along?
Captured Comet Becomes Moon of Jupiter
Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
China Launches First Moon Orbiter
China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures
China's First Spacewalk
Comet Lulin Is Moving Closer To Earth
Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight
Evidence For Liquid Water On a Frozen Early Mars
Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles
Exoplanets Found Hiding In Hubble Telescope Data
First Image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced
Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle
Google's Brin Books a Space Flight
Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight
IAU Names Fifth Dwarf Planet Haumea
IPv6 Tested in Space
ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew
Interstellar Ark
Iran Launches Payload into Space
Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible?
Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking
Kimchi in Space
Lawmakers Voice Support For NASA Moon Program
Make Your Own Sputnik
Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find
Mysterious Peruvian Meteor Disease Solved
NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012
NASA Installing Shocks On Ares
NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening
NASA Think Tank to be Shut Down
NASA To Invest In Commercial Crew Concepts
Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement
New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds
New Unmanned Japanese Re-Supply Vessel For the ISS
Opportunity Takes a Dip Into Victoria Crater
Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station
Outer Space has a Smell
Planck Satellite Releases First Images
Possible Meteorite Imaged By Opportunity Rover
SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material
Saturn's Moons Harboring Water?
Scotty's Final Mission
Sophisticated Balloons Could Help Steer Spacecraft
Soyuz Ballistic Re-entry 300 Miles Off Course
Space Station Solar Equipment Showing Damage
Space Station Toilets Poop Out
SpaceShipTwo Design and Pics Released
SpaceX Launch Failure Due To Timing Problem
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations
Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada
Successful Launch of ESA's Herschel and Planck
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
The Fermi Paradox is Back
The Lower Atmosphere of Pluto Revealed
The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream
The Shadow Space Race
Third Falcon 1 Launch May Be This Afternoon
Trio of Super-Earths Discovered
US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success
US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors
US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris
Ulysses Spacecraft on its Last Legs
Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil
What If the Apollo Program Had Continued?
Where Are The Space Advocates?
White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars
Youngest Planet Discovered
Your Chance to be an Astronaut
NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System
Cassini Probes the Hexagon On Saturn
Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found
Methane On Mars May Indicate Living Planet
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ
Moon Mining Gets a Closer Look
DIY Live Photos From ISS
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet
No Space Porn (For Now)
Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project
Fly Me To Which Moon?
Earth Life Possibly Could Reach Titan
Earth's Moon is a Rarity
Northrop Grumman to own Scaled Composites
Space Money Invented For Space Tourists
Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky
Chandrayaan Maps Apollo Missions
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow
Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power
13 Pico-Satellites to Launch June 28th
India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth
Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987
ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert"
Extraterrestrials Probably Haven't Found Us - Yet
Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan
Japan Scrapping Moon Mission
SpaceX Falcon Update With Pictures
A Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square
Mars Rover "Spirit" In Danger
Milky Way's Black Hole a Gamma Source?
Hydrocarbon Rain Swells Titan's Lakes
The Quietest Sun
The Herschel Telescope Close To Blast Off
Titan Balloon Mission Being Drafted
Europe's Biggest Amateur Rocket Completes Test-Firing
Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole
$29M To Start US Satellite Protection Program
NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report
Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet
Mars Lander Instrument Waving In the Martian Wind
"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids
Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold