Space

18 Beautiful Astronomy Photos from the Astronomical League

By TIME Staff

Brilliant Star Clusters in the Flame Nebula Hold the Mysteries of Star Formation

By Sam Frizell

Life in Outer Space, Always Where You Least Expect

By Michael D. Lemonick

Window on Infinity: Selfies, Star Clusters and Hard Work on Mars

By TIME Staff
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Galactic Cannonball Heading Our Way

Globular clusters ought to be lazy things. But one of them—made of 100,000 stars—is speeding toward us at an unheard of 2 million miles per hour. So, um, duck?

By Michael D. Lemonick

Old Space Images Aid Search for New Planets

A team of scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute is using image-recognition software and new algorithms to re-analyze existing Hubble images of space in the hopes of finding new stars and planets

By Michael D. Lemonick

NASA Chief: Future Depends On Mars

NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden says it's vital we become a "multi-planet species"

By TIME Video

LittleBits' Space-Themed Electronics Kit Is Plug-and-Play and NASA-Approved

Snap-together electronics modules let you learn about space exploration by building stuff

By Harry McCracken

The Space Sorority

On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first female in space on Vostok 6. Today she is one of 57 women who have been to space, including NOAA head and TIME 100 honoree Kathryn Sullivan. Below, see some of the other members of the great space sorority.

By TIME Staff

No, We're Not All Gonna Die From An Asteroid

A new report spreads fear about the Earth getting clobbered by a killer rock. But the fact is we get hit all the time and we just don't know it. Move on, nothing to see here (at least for now)

By Jeffrey Kluger

An Asteroid Catastrophe Is More Likely Than You Think

Asteroid impacts on Earth are three to ten times more common than we imagined, new data shows, with researchers saying that only “blind luck” is preventing a disastrous strike from a "city killer" asteroid

By Michelle Arrouas

Another Earth? Satellite Makes Promising Find

The best place to look for extraterrestrial life would be on worlds with a size and composition like our own. Astronomers have now discovered what may be the Earthiest planet yet—and there are surely more out there

By Michael D. Lemonick

It's a Moon! Saturn Expecting a Baby

New findings from a NASA space probe suggest that one of the solar system's most fertile planets may be adding offspring number 63 to its family. The new moon has not been directly spotted yet, but scientists have already given it a nickname: Peggy

By Jeffrey Kluger

Watch the 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse in 9 Seconds Flat

Millions of people were greeted last night with a strange celestial sighting, the “blood moon” lunar eclipse. The phenomenon occurs when the moon passes into the earth’s shadow and, for about an hour, takes on...

By TIME Photo

Can't Get Outside? Watch Tonight's Total Lunar Eclipse Live Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7aXzE5ZNH8&w=560&h=315 At 3:07 a.m. E.T. Tuesday, the moon will show the bright red blush of an eclipse, a celestial phenomenon explained by TIME science editor Jeffrey Kluger here. Starting at 2 a.m. E.T., watch live...

By Mia Tramz

Helium Leak Delays SpaceX Rocket Launch

NASA hopes to finally launch the rocket on Friday afternoon, weather permitting, after Monday's supply mission that would have brought 5,000 pounds of food and other supplies to the six astronauts aboard the International Space Station was scrubbed

By Alexandra Sifferlin

'Blood Moon' Rising

Look up into the sky at 3:07 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday, and you'll see the moon adorned in a rare shade of crimson as it crosses into Earth's shadow, one of four complete lunar eclipses we'll see this year and next. Subtle darkening will start at 12:54 a.m. E.T.

By Michael D. Lemonick

SpaceX's Biggest Milestones

The private sector is racing for space, and Elon Musk's SpaceX is currently in the lead. A look back at Musk's corporation's biggest milestones

By TIME Staff

Watch a Skydiver Almost Get Hit By A Meteorite

That would've hurt

By Melissa Locker

Moscow, We Have a Problem

NASA confirms a leaked internal memo that states it suspended the "majority of its ongoing engagements" with Russia over the country's recent incursion into Crimea, but says it will keep working together to maintain operation of the International Space Station

By Jeffrey Kluger
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