WATCH: Stewart Calls 'Bullsh*t' On Asteroid Mining
This week, a collective of independently wealthy people, including two Google execs and "Titanic" director James Cameron, announced the launch of a co...
This week, a collective of independently wealthy people, including two Google execs and "Titanic" director James Cameron, announced the launch of a co...
LiveScience | Posted 04.25.2012
China is preparing to launch astronauts to a prototype space station for the first time, and the crew may include the first female Chinese astronaut, ...
Posted 04.26.2012
It's almost hard to believe that "Outer Space," the two-minute film from Netherlands-based editor and director Sander van den Berg, was...
Posted 04.21.2012
The newest member of the exclusive space exploration club: A rubber chicken. During last month's solar storm -- the most intense radiation storm si...
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON — IMAX Corp. is donating its first cameras used to film aboard the space shuttle to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum i...
The vast majority of galaxies are either flattened, disklike spirals like our own Milky Way, ellipsoidal rugby ball-shaped blobs, or irregular clumps ...
Mollie Reilly | Posted 03.28.2012
Newt Gingrich's fixation with the final frontier is far from new. Gingrich made headlines this week by pledging to build a permanent base on the ...
AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 12.09.2011
WASHINGTON -- Astronauts may have had the `right stuff' to go to the moon, but when it comes to keeping track of what they brought back, NASA seems to...
By John Matson (Click here for original article.) There's probably no intelligent life in the outer solar system. But it couldn't hurt to check. ...
By Kelly Oakes (Click here for original article.) Galaxies do not usually exist alone. They tend to bunch together in small groups, like the Local...
AP | RAY HENRY | Posted 01.12.2012
ATLANTA — Republican Herman Cain said God convinced him to enter the race for president, comparing himself to Moses: "'You've got the wrong man,...
Seth Shostak | Posted 01.10.2012
It's probably hopeless to do a thorough reconnaissance of our solar system. Nonetheless, there are certain places, such as the Lagrange points between the Earth and Moon, where a detailed search for not-made-on-Earth hardware could be undertaken.
Posted 01.02.2012
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AP | By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 12.20.2011
BERLIN -- Pieces of a retired German satellite hurtling toward the atmosphere may crash to earth this weekend, the German Aerospace Center said Thursd...
By John Matson (Click here for original article.) Mercury, a hard-baked pebble of a planet patrolling the inner solar system, has long been a bit ...
Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 11.17.2011
Galileo could probably see more stars from Florence than we could from Boston, but I had a feeling his sense of relaxation in turning to the skies after a long day was probably similar to my own.
AP | Posted 11.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- Forecasters say a new solar flare should provide only a glancing blow on Earth on Friday and is unlikely to cause any problems. The Nat...
Posted 11.01.2011
Zero gravity may lend itself to some LOL-worthy aerial stunts, but we have a feeling this footage of a woman drinking water in space is being passed a...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.01.2011
WASHINGTON — Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say we may need to finally think about cleaning it up. That may mean...
Posted 10.22.2011
A team of scientists believe they have uncovered the fossilized remains of the earliest life on earth. Fossilized, single-celled organisms were di...
Posted 09.10.2011
Ever since the Space Race defined international relations in the mid-to-late twentieth century, human culture has always had at least one eye turned t...
Posted 09.07.2011
UPDATE: Atlantis successfully completed its launch. The AP reports, "Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA's last space s...
Posted 08.26.2011
The landscapes in Kahn & Selesnick's "Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea" feel as though they're being explored for the first time. The new inhabitants...
John Bobey | Posted 07.26.2011
You shot yourself in the foot by calling them Space Shuttles. "Shuttles" don't boldly go where no man has gone before, they go to Chicago, and occasionally bring you from Parking Lot T to the front entrance of the State Fair.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.12.2011
As scientists suggest they're close to discovering the first habitable planet beyond our own, 86 individual planets are now being scanned for signs of...
The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 04.26.2012