Surfing the Event Horizon of SF Pseudo-Cyberspace
Aerospace heavyweight Boeing is advancing plans for its new capsule-based spaceship, designed to ferry people to and from the International Space Station and future private space stations.
A new planet-hunting technique that was used to detect an exotic alien world may be sensitive enough to help astronomers search for Earth-sized planets that orbit other stars, according to a new study.
The sun’s erratic and sometimes volatile behavior has the potential to cause real problems here on Earth, and protecting our planet will require an international effort, according to scientists who gathered today for a meeting about the effects of solar activity.
New attention is being paid by the U.S. Congress on how best to shield Earth from a bad day – getting whacked by an asteroid or comet that has our planet in its cross-hairs.
The Herschel space telescope has captured an image of a stellar nursery so shrouded by dust that no infrared telescope has been able to see it until now.
Two private spacesuit designers unveiled their first steps toward serious attire for future space travelers Friday night in front of a young, hip crowd of artists and tech geeks in Manhattan.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is serving as a sanctuary for endangered wildlife from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
A commercial spaceship owned by Virgin Galactic made its first flight with a crew onboard Thursday.
The surviving members of the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international space mission in history, gathered together Thursday to mark the 35th anniversary of their historic flight.
NASA’s sky-mapping telescope is set to complete its first full survey of the sky on Saturday, having beamed back to Earth over one million images of everything from asteroids to distant galaxies.