Taken aboard the International Space Station on Dec. 6, 2015, the Cygnus Commercial Resupply Services spacecraft is seen launching into space. (NASA Image) For space-lovers who get to see a rocket launch in person, it's an unforgettable experience. Now, imagine what it's like to watch a rocket take off when you're aboard the International Space Station. When the Cygnus Commercial Resupply Services spacecraft launched aboard the Atlas V rocket on Dec. 6, 2015, ISS astronauts were expecting to catch a...

NASA scientists were successfully able to rescue the Kepler Spacecraft after earlier finding it in emergency mode. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wendy Stenzel) EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was updated April 11, 2016. NASA's Kepler Spacecraft has been successfully recovered. Earlier, the space agency announced that mission operators were surprised to find the exoplanet-detecting space probe was in emergency mode (EM) during a routine contact late last week. The probe, according to the Verge, was to be maneuvered "to point at the center of the...

SpaceX craft delivers important cargo to ISS, an experimental inflating room. ...

Don't believe the doomsday hype about the putative Planet Nine. Yesterday (April 7), the New York Post published a video claiming that Planet Nine — a hypothesized world in the solar system's far outer reaches — could send asteroids and comets hurtling into Earth soon, with potentially devastating consequences. "A newly discovered planet could destroy Earth as soon as this month," the New York Post said yesterday via its Twitter account, @nypost, by way of advertising the new video. [The...

Meteorologist Kait Parker takes a look inside the International Space Station with a new 360 degree technology from NASA. ...

Scientists announce plans to send thousands of tiny spacecraft aloft and beam them toward the stars with a series of lasers. ...

Charged solar particles strip away Mars’ atmosphere over time. ...

With famed physicist Stephen Hawking at his side, an Internet investor announced Tuesday that he's spending $100 million on a futuristic plan to explore far outside our solar system. Yuri Milner said the eventual goal is sending hundreds or thousands of tiny spacecraft, each weighing far less than an ounce, to the Alpha Centauri star system. That's more than 2,000 times as far as any spacecraft has gone so far. Propelled by energy from a powerful array of Earth-based lasers,...

The "Spider" Nebula, formally named IC 417, lies about 10,000 light-years away from Earth and is a site of active star formation. It is in the outer part of the Milky Way, almost exactly in the opposite direction from the galactic center. A cluster of young stars known as "Stock 8" are seen at the center right of the image. The light from this cluster carves out a bowl in the nearby dust clouds, seen here as green fluff. Along...

A compilation of SpaceX’s many launches and landing attempts, before it finally was able to land a spacecraft stage on a drone ship in the ocean. ...

Be sure to check out Mercury next week just after the sunset it will become visible. ...

Mercury is never brighter or easier to spot with the naked eye than it will be in the next week. It's a rare treat to get such a clear view of the planet closest to the sun, and this front row seat will only last so long. To see Mercury yourself, go outside about 30 minutes after sunset and look for the planet near the horizon. It will appear just above where the sun sinks, about 15 degrees above the...