Space News

Thousands of German football fans gathered at Wembley Stadium early Saturday and packed into central London ahead of the Champions League final.

The UK's space industry is low-key, but a major player in satellite manufacturing - and some companies export 95% of their output Major Tim Peake will be the first Briton to go to the International Space Station, but the government has great hopes for the wider UK space industry.

SPACE Commander Chris Hadfield sang David Bowie's Space Oddity as his finale to his International Space Station show.

With the ending of the Space Shuttle program, NASA is now turning to private companies to design and build new spacecraft to take astronauts into orbit.

Space-industry watchers expressed concern this week that the emerging space tourism sector is not being candid enough about the safety risks for travellers.

Two weeks ago during a trip to Washington, D.C to see baseball we took a day and went to the other National Air and Space Museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy center that is out by Dulles airport.

Small space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say.

A 3-D printer is slated to arrive at the International Space Station next year, where it will crank out the first parts ever manufactured off planet Earth.

The famous Ring Nebula is shown here in striking detail, in a composite image made from images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and infrared data from telescopes on Earth.

Leonardo DiCaprio adjusts his bow tie on May 15, 2013 as he arrives for the screening of the film "The Great Gatsby" ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.

The other day I had to figure out what to make for dinner. On this mission, we have plenty of raw ingredients - pastas, tofu, dehydrated beef, freeze-dried vegetables, and even complete meals - so I puzzled over the my options for some time.

How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon from ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths ever radiated by all galaxies that ever existed throughout cosmic history is still speeding through the Universe today.

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 is the family adventure film Space Warriors that is available exclusively at Walmart .

On Tuesday, May 16th, we had the privilege of touring NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

A University of Alberta physicist brought together backyard astronomers and professionals to confirm the mysterious behavior of two stars more than 300 light-years from Earth.

Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.

Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.

The upcoming "Star Trek" game rekindles the show's voyage of exploration, but it's also a shoot-em-up title.

Astronaut Sally Ride, the United States' first woman in space, will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House in 2013.

On May 13th, Commander Chris Hadfield returned to his home planet. That's an odd phrase that you'll rarely find outside of fiction, but the Canadian leader of Expedition 35 ended his 5-month stay aboard the International Space Station last week.