Stories by SPACE.com

Researchers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the testing of miniaturized, high-efficiency propulsion technology

An unmanned rocket carrying $200 million in satellite technology likely crashed due to an emergency booster shutdown

A poll to rename Pluto's moons throws out the most popular choice: a Star Trek inspired name

Science and history have motivated researchers to scour the moon's surface for missing mooncraft

Radar images from Cassini probe cast some light on Titan's mysterious surface

More than 11,000 supporters donated to Planetary Resources' asteroid-hunting, publicly accessible telescope program

The largest full moon of 2013 will peak early Sunday morning

NASA reaches out to the public for ideas on how to prevent dangerous asteroid impacts

An accident is revealed as the true cause of Gagarin's crash during a test flight in 1968

Even stargazers without telescopes will be able to see Saturn and the bright star Spica as they join the moon in the night sky next week

The Lone Signal project is taking a different approach to discovering extraterrestrials: sending messages into deep space

A crew of three Chinese astronauts have entered space to practice orbital docking techniques and perform research

Upcoming cosmic alignments will give planet hunters an opportunity to intensify the search for potential exoplanets

A "garbage truck-size" but harmless asteroid will fly within the moon's orbit tomorrow

A call for NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to focus on the center of the galaxy could clear up the identity of dark matter

One of two donated National Reconnaissance Office telescopes could help NASA explore space while easing budget woes, according to the American Astronomical Society

Catch a live webcast of the moon as it grazes the outermost layer of Earth's shadow

Astronomers caught a glimpse of two star-forming galaxies as they collided 11 billion light-years away. The smashup could eventually produce one giant elliptical galaxy, researchers say

The moon generated a surprisingly intense magnetic field until at least 3.56 billion years ago, 160 years longer than previously thought, a new study reports

The Opportunity rover passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972, but the Soviet Union still holds the international record

The mountains of the moon, formed mainly by asteroid impacts in the distant past, are visible for those that wish to see them this month

Sunday (May 5), some of the remnants of the most famous of comets will briefly light up the early morning sky

The mysterious bias of life on Earth toward molecules that skew one way and not the other could be due to how light shines in star- and planet-forming clouds, researchers say

A meteor shower and a cosmic "ring of fire" will dominate the night sky this month