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An interview with photographer Michael Soluri, who chronicled the leadup to the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. To source

From the first color image of Pluto to an awesome new SpaceX Video, don’t miss these amazing space images of the week for April 19, 2015. To source

A 208-foot-long (65 meters) drive on Thursday (April 16) pushed the car-size Curiosity rover’s odometer past 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), NASA officials said. To source

Most people have two eyes. Humans evolved to use them together (not all animals do). People form a continuous, stereoscopic panorama movie of the world within in their minds. With your two eyes tilted upward on a clear night, there’s nothing standing between you and the universe. The easiest way to enhance your enjoyment of […]

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor   |   September 18, 2015 09:00am ET Editor’s note: To find out more about the rare supermoon lunar eclipse of Sept. 27-28 and how to see it, visit: Supermoon Lunar Eclipse 2015: Full ‘Blood Moon’ Coverage . Such an event won’t happen again until 2033. <img src=”http://i.space.com/images/i/000/050/312/i01/SMLEbanner1.jpg?1442584960″ alt=”Checkout our super moon deals for the […]

by Karl Tate , SPACE.com Infographics Artist   |   September 18, 2015 09:29am ET Editor’s note: To find out more about the rare supermoon lunar eclipse of Sept. 27-28 and how to see it, visit: Supermoon Lunar Eclipse 2015: Full ‘Blood Moon’ Coverage . Such an event won’t happen again until 2033. The word “eclipse” means to obscure. When […]

A 2013 map of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang, taken by the ESA’s Planck spacecraft, captured the oldest light in the universe. This information helps astronomers determine the age of the universe.Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration. The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At […]

The dwarf planet Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system, is round and may contain more fresh water than the entire Earth. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been exploring Ceres since 2015. See more views of Ceres in this SPACE.com gallery. HERE:This image of Ceres as seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> Aurorae Choas Credit: ISRO Aurorae Chaos, Pyrrhae Chaos and other regions of Mars captured by the Mars Orbiter camera. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Valles Marineris Credit: ISRO Canyon walls clearly show in this image of Valles Marineris. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Valles Marineris – Large Canyon Credit: ISRO Valles Marineris is the largest canyon […]

by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor   |   May 05, 2015 11:02pm ET This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Sirius A, the brightest star in our nighttime sky, along with its faint, tiny stellar companion, Sirius B. Astronomers overexposed the image of Sirius A so that the dim Sirius B (tiny dot at lower left) could […]

The Slooh community observatory will be celebrating Earth Day on Saturday (April 22), with a webcast beginning at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT). During the webcast, members of the public will share the things they’d miss most about Earth if they had to go to space, while two astronauts will name the things they did […]

Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, 10:31 a.m. EST. The last or third quarter moon rises around 11:30 p.m. and sets around 12:15 p.m. It is most easily seen just after sunrise in the southern sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of […]

This illustration provides a comparison for how big the moons of Mars appear to be, as seen from the surface of Mars, in relation to the size that Earth’s moon appears to be when seen from the surface of Earth. Deimos, at far left, and Phobos, beside it, are shown together as they actually were […]