On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States.

The drama on Darwin IV is motivated by real science missions, such as the NASA Origins Program and the NASA / JPL Planet-Finder Mission, as well as the European Space Agency's Darwin Project. "Alien P...

After three decades of space service, NASA's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, began its new life as a museum relic with one final takeoff. Discovery departed Florida's Kennedy Space Center...

It was created by combining more than 6000 individual images from the VISTA survey telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. This picture shows a region of the sky known as the COSMOS field in ...

The first two satellites of the constellation were launched by the first Soyuz from French Guyane last October. Since then they have transmitted the first Galileo signals that will carry the different...

The Solar System's birth was far from peaceful. Witness the spectacular explosion known as the "Big Bang".

Frank De Winne is answering a few questions on the ISS submitted by the pupils of Class 7M from the Christian Morgenstern School in Hersching (Germany): Video from the ESA.

Knowledge is the basis of our species, and there isn't anything that puts it's importance into perspective more than the Cosmos series. Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean"

Taken in twilight on the morning of Dec. 22 at the VLT, Cerro Paranal, Chile. edit caption

Various people are interviewed to share their own experiences with UFO sightings. Then, we hit the streets of Amsterdam where the locals speak their mind about aliens, abductions and making contact wi...

There was a time when only government agencies had the ability to blast rockets into space, or send missions to worlds beyond our own. These days, countries around the world are preparing to send miss...

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit of NASA and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency discussed the status of their mission and the upcoming flight o...

Hank throws three bite-sized stories at ya: the sequencing of 5300-year-old ice man Oetzi's genome; a confusing mass of dark matter; and how the cleanup of the Fukushima disaster is going one year lat...

A giant solar tornado - five times the Earth's diameter - swirling at incredible speed of some 186,000 mph has been captured on video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

This version of the film is missing a shot. If you want to see the full version in all its glory, go to its listing in our film archive: http://svs.gsfc.n...

An ESA-developed camera transmitted live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel. On 6 August, NASA astronaut Ron Garan operated the Erasmus Recording Binocular (ERB-2) c...

Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, "it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly." But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival...

Quantum Mechanics (Chapter 2): The Structure Of Atoms.

Should Santa be spotted by one of the transit surveys then this is what the lightcurve would look like! Created by Joe Llama, University of St Andrews.

Asteroids, comets, eclipses, eruptions and discoveries highlight a very active year in space. Here are some of the astronomical highlights that made 2011 a special year to peer into the cosmos.