Space  

This view of the Medusa Nebula was delivered by ESO's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile's Atacama Desert

The mission is so secretive that even NASA is utterly and completely clueless about the space plane's flight agenda

Space enthusiasts want to beam a crowdsourced message to the probe, hope aliens will one day decipher it

New space image produced by the European Space Agency reveals the complex anatomy of the Orion Molecular Cloud

As of this year's March 24, the rover had traveled over a distance of precisely 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers)

The black holes are nestled in the core of a nebula of cool dense gas, W. M. Keck Observatory data indicates

The LightSail project, developed by The Planetary Society, aims to prove the viability of solar propulsion

The orbs were imaged by NASA's New Horizons probe from a distance of over 55 million miles (88.5 million kilometers)

The agency plans to use the rocket to send crew and cargo on deep space missions, the goal being to one day reach Mars

The images, produced by the agency's Dawn spacecraft, were taken from a distance of just 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers)

New study in the Astrophysical Journal announces the discovery of massive and extremely dense cloud of molecular gas

The Russian cargo ship launched on April 28, went haywire and crashed into the Pacific just a few hours ago

Although the ship is expected to burn up in the atmosphere, some bits and pieces of it could fall on Earth

The flare peaked at 6:11 p.m. EDT on May 5, was powerful enough to upset radio signals across the Pacific region

The Red Planet is now orbited by two natural satellites and a total of five active spacecraft sent its way from Earth

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower happens each spring, when our planet moves through debris left behind by Halley's Comet

The Pillars of Creation sit in the Eagle Nebula some 7,000 light-years away, will disappear in about 3 million years