Update Saturday 7/12/13 – Private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences  postponed the launch of its second unmanned mission to the International Space Station due to weather at Wallops Island. Now the mission is…

  (NASA) – Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth’s Dead Sea. The…

The satellites that monitor the status and health of planet Earth seemed to send down a continual stream of bad news. Melting ice sheets, CO2 increasing, oceans rising, global warming,…

(NASA) – The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) raced skyward from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. Approximately 56 minutes after the launch, the…

Fairly awesome video taken by an on board camera during a test flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket to 1000m followed by a pinpoint landing back on the…

(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has been given the go-ahead to conduct an intensive search for a suitable outer solar system object that the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft could…

(NASA) – At the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) a team of astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) announced that they have discovered a new type of…

Update July 1, The launch was delayed 24 hours due to an issue with the rocket. A 24 hour recycle time is needed and another attempt will be made on…