SPACE

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has spotted the fastest rotating star known to date, rotating at more than two million kilometers per hour, more than three hundred times faster than the Sun.

Spacewatchers are looking forward to China’s next space mission after Shenzhou 8’s successful docking mission to Tiangong 1 space laboratory.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has broken the closest-approach mark to Pluto set by NASA’s Voyager 1 in January 1986.

For a taste of what this conference will bring, NASA has released their finding of a new Earth-sized planet orbiting a star 352 light years away. The planet was named Kepler-21b and the star it is orbiting named HD 179070. The planet and star is just one of the hundreds of planets and stars found by the satellite orbiting Earth.

The discovery of 18 new alien planets, all of which are Jupiter-sized and circle stars bigger than Earth’s sun, has brought to more than 700 the list of known exoplanets.

The U.S. Space Surveillance/US STRATCOM has identified two objects associated to the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and both objects are rapidly decaying.

A new study revealed that some ancient stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way were found to have an unusually large amounts of heavy metals like gold, platinum and uranium.

A new study showed a giant exoplanet, which is about four times the size of Jupiter, doing somersaults into space and tugging four sibling planets along.

The European Space Agency's latest efforts to communicate with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft remain unsuccessul, but an astrophotographer and expert satellite spotter was able to track down the spacecraft and photograph it a few weeks after it was launched.

A new study said that roundworms, which researchers has sent to the space station on the space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in December 2006, may be sent farther, even to Mars, to aid human exploration efforts.

A secretive robotic space place, a project of the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, is about to set its own space-endurance record. The project was planned for a 9- month-plus mission, and officials said they are close to that now.

The NASA Kepler Mission has discovered a new exoplanet similar in size to Earth but with a temperature nowhere near the habitable zone.

Pluto’s small moons may pose a serious threat to NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft once it reaches the planet in 2015.

Planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, even if they are far from their parent star, can generate enough heat to keep liquid water on their surfaces making it habitable.

The European Space Agency’s latest attempts to send commands to the Phobos-Grunt have not been successful as the spacecraft did not raise its orbit and remained on track for its re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere.

An amateur astronomer captured the shot of his life when he took a picture of forming solar system.

Russian space officials face threats of fine and/or criminal prosecution due to the failure of several projects, particularly the Phobos-Grunt mission, the most ambitious Mars mission so far.

A 40-year-old NASA tradition of sending presidential plaques on planetary missions continues with the inscription of the signatures of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other administration and NASA officials on a metal plate on board Curiosity.

Efforts to communicate with the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft suffered a setback after the European Space Agency tracking antenna in Australia failed to pick up any signals after Nov. 24. Attemtps to communicate with the spacecraft on November 25/26 (UTC) have not been successful.

NASA has received a signal from its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, which is now headed for Mars, shortly after the spacecraft separated from the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Physicists have determined that dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up almost a fourth of the universe, must have a mass greater than 40-giga-electron volts or it is not a dark matter.

NASA's future space missions may be delayed or cancelled to the scarcity of plutonium-238, which has been used by the space agency to fuel its manned spacecrafts for the past 50 years.

NASA’s Expedition 30 crew need not take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft after flight controllers determined that the Fengyun 1C satellite debris poses no threat of the International Space Station crew.

The European Space Agency’s tracking station at Perth, Australia has established contact with Russian’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on Tuesday, Nov. 22, the first since the spacecraft was lost in Earth’s orbit.

Curiosity, a state-of-the-art rover that will be launched on Nov. 26 with the Mars Science Laboratory probe, will attempt to answer the question on whether life can or could have lived in the Red Planet.

Could Pluto's icy surface hide an ocean underneath? This question and other mysteries surrounding the distant object, once considered the farthest planet from the sun, may be answered when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in 2015.

A 4-inch piece of debris from the destroyed Chinese Fengyun 1C was seen to head towards the International Space Station prompting NASA’s Mission Control to warn the Expedition 30 crew of a possible collision.

A new generation robotic lander capable of performing science and exploration research on the moon, asteroids or on Mars will soon be developed with the successful completion of the final flight in a series of tests for the robotic lander prototype.

Lighting Sprites are colorful bursts of electricity that can stretch for more than 95 kilometers (58 miles) from cloud tops. These mysterious and beautiful lightning phenomena had only been captured in photos in 1994 and since then scientists haven't been able to look away from the light show the upper atmosphere provides. Now scientists from Tel Aviv University are proposing that lighting sprites can even be found in outer space.