Earth-bound high school students will compete to program robotic spheres to fly around inside the International Space Station. Continue reading →

NASA has selected a $200 million mission to carry out a full-sky survey for exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. The space observatory, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled for a 2017 launch. ->

In a world where private space industry is poised to take over, the world's first single stage to orbit spacecraft may be the privately developed Skylon spaceplane. ->

Next week, a 45 meter-wide, 130,000 ton space rock will zoom safely by. But as far as cosmic distances go, it will be a close shave. ->

This time lapse video, taken by the International Space Station, is filled with lightning storms, the Northern Lights, tropical currents and pure awesomeness. The video is a series of sequence photographs taken with a low-light 4K-camera by the crew of Expedition 28 and 29. If you have commitment i...

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Look! It's a bird... It's a plane... No, it's the International Space Station! Amaze your friends and enlighten your UFO-watching acquaintances with your ability to identify man-made objects in the night sky with Star Walk, an 'augmented stargazing' app for the iPhone and iPad. Star Walk is an inte...

A British Ph.D. student and colleagues want to wake up an old satellite, one that was launched in 1971 and hasn't transmitted since 1996.