12 November 2014, 11:13 AM ET
For the first time in history, a spacecraft built on Earth has softly landed on the face of a comet speeding through deep space.
12 November 2014, 04:03 AM ET
If all went according to plan, the European Space Agency's Philae lander separated from its Rosetta mothership at 3:35 a.m. EST Wednesday, beginning a long, slow journey down to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
11 November 2014, 06:56 PM ET
Scientists have picked up on the mysterious "song" of a comet speeding through deep space.
11 November 2014, 02:16 PM ET
Scientists on Earth are hoping to land a probe on the face of a comet for the first time Wednesday (Nov. 12), and they are now one step closer to accomplishing that goal.
11 November 2014, 12:19 PM ET
A humongous sunspot — the biggest one seen since 1990 — has so far produced no aurora-causing events, despite sending off 10 huge solar flares in less than two weeks.
11 November 2014, 11:46 AM ET
Comet 67P/C-G is humming. ESA’s Rosetta probe detected cyclical changes in the comet’s magnetic field environment. To make the comet’s magnetic ‘song’ audible to people, researchers sped up the data 10,000 times its actual rate.
11 November 2014, 10:34 AM ET
Supernova 1987A remnant’s appearance has baffled astronomers for decades. One side is brighter than the other.
11 November 2014, 07:21 AM ET
A European probe is expected to make an audacious landing on the face of a comet tomorrow (Nov. 12), and you can follow it live online starting today (Nov. 11).
11 November 2014, 07:00 AM ET
Radar measurements made by NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini probe along a 25-mile-long (40 kilometers) stretch of Kraken Mare's eastern shore reveal depths ranging from 66 to 115 feet (20 to 35 m), researchers said.
11 November 2014, 12:25 AM ET
Space art spans centuries, beginning with the very first imaginings of what details might lie at the ends of ever more powerful telescopes.
10 November 2014, 10:51 PM ET
Space art creates virtual worlds and possible realities, inspired by a fusion of science and imagination.
10 November 2014, 10:34 PM ET
For centuries, artists have created visions of spacescapes informed by science, yet limited only by the imagination.
10 November 2014, 04:46 PM ET
The low birth rate for stars in distant galaxy clusters is one of astronomy's long-standing mysteries. But scientists now have a new culprit in the case: cosmic turbulence from black holes.
10 November 2014, 02:00 PM ET
Landing a probe on a comet whizzing through deep space isn't easy, but this week, the European Space Agency (ESA) will attempt to do just that. If successful, it will be the first time anyone has landed a probe on the surface of a comet.
10 November 2014, 12:14 PM ET
Interruptions in the regular tick-tock of nature's clocks could be a sign that gravitational waves are passing through.
10 November 2014, 11:00 AM ET
To understand how deep fractures on the giant asteroid Vesta formed, scientists recreated violent cosmic impacts in a lab with a high-speed cannon.
10 November 2014, 11:00 AM ET
Should we ever find ourselves facing a real-life "Interstellar" dilemma, NASA might be able to help. The space agency has several ongoing and planned missions to scan the cosmos for Earth-like worlds outside the solar system.
10 November 2014, 09:42 AM ET
NASA CIBER sounding rocket experiments have detected a surprising amount of infrared 'cosmic glow.’ It comes from ‘orphan stars,’ which are ejected out of their host galaxies during galaxy collisions and end up in the voids between galaxies.
10 November 2014, 08:00 AM ET
The remains of stellar explosion 1987A have been imaged using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array in Australia and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile.
10 November 2014, 07:00 AM ET
The sci-fi epic "Interstellar" is just a movie, but it throws a lot of science on the screen for space geeks to sink their teeth into. Here's a look at some of the space-science concepts that play key roles in the film.
09 November 2014, 07:51 PM ET
Using the European Very Large Telescope's MUSE instrument, researchers have been able to compile observations of galaxy ESO 137-001 slamming into a enormous galaxy cluster and the movement of gas in the aftermath.
09 November 2014, 08:18 AM ET
The European Space Agency is going to attempt to land a probe on the surface of a comet next week. If successful, the soft-landing will be the first of its kind in history.
08 November 2014, 07:00 AM ET
A weakening sun will more easily push Mars-bound astronauts beyond standard NASA radiation safety limits, putting them at increased risk for cancer, a new study warns.
07 November 2014, 09:58 PM ET
SpaceIL is hoping to not only land an Israeli craft on the moon, but also learn a bit about lunar magnetism while the lander is there.
07 November 2014, 06:49 PM ET
In water surface tension experiment, ISS crew members Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst created a floating water bubble and inserted a Go-Pro camera.
07 November 2014, 06:14 PM ET
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's (MRO) High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera snapped imagery of the comet during its fly-by of Mars.
07 November 2014, 06:08 PM ET
This treatment shows brightness changes in the coma of the comet. The imagery was snapped by the NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter between Oct. 17th-20th, 2014.
07 November 2014, 04:57 PM ET
A rare close encounter between Mars and a comet last month pummeled the Red Planet with cometary dust, which likely left a yellow glow in the Martian sky, scientists revealed today (Nov. 7).
07 November 2014, 04:37 PM ET
European scientists and engineers are gearing up to soft-land a robotic probe on the mysterious surface of a comet for the first time.
07 November 2014, 02:02 PM ET
Wormhole travel across the universe and supergiant black holes are just some of the wonders seen in the film 'Interstellar.' See how the film's astrophysics works in this Space.com infographic.
07 November 2014, 09:24 AM ET
A sunspot that was larger than Jupiter had a very active run between Oct. 19th-27th, 2014. According to NASA, its was the "largest active region on the sun since 1990."
07 November 2014, 08:14 AM ET
Rosetta has been studying Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for months, but the comet's southern side has always been cloaked in darkness. Now, light-scattering dust particles have allowed a fuzzy first glimpse of 67P's dark side.