Solar flares, massive energetic explosions that rise up from the Sun, can damage man-made satellites and pose a radiation hazard to astronauts.

SpaceX engineers are investigating the cause of Saturday’s failed flight of the Falcon 1, a low-cost, light-lift rocket developed by the Southern California-based...

Ror the first time in Europe, historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thoughts and ideas on how humankind...

Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program.

Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now...

We’ve heard about the possibility of extraterrestrial life arriving on Earth from another planet, asteroid or comet, but the mode of transport usually includes a...

FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have...

On July 20, 1968 Apollo 8 landed on the moon, barely 22 years after mankind had first placed a man- made object in orbit. Unfortunately, the Moon landings were short...

The space station’s two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that promised to be tame compared...

If you’re out watching the twilight sky in the time frame from 45 to 90 minutes before sunrise, or 45 to 90 minutes after sunset, you’ll might see a few...

The United States is losing dominance in space as Europe, Japan, Russia and China expand their space programs, analysts say.

In a daring spacewalk, two space station astronauts cut into the insulation of their descent capsule Thursday and removed an explosive bolt that could have blown off...

Two space station astronauts took a daring spacewalk Thursday to cut into the insulation of their descent capsule and remove an explosive bolt with firecracker force _...

Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.

NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.NASA has 10 missions remaining for the shuttle...

By the end of the year, the world’s greatest telescope should be able to see deeper into space and further back in time than ever. If all goes as planned, it will...

Before we completely bid adieu to our nation’s birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout-out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars...

A spaceship descends with a thunderous roar and deposits a futuristic probe before taking off again. The Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) soon activates and...

Scientists find that the soil on the northern arctic plains of Mars is full of mineral nutrients that plants would need to survive.

Ambitious plans for European missions to the Moon and Mars are being considered by the French government.