SPACE

Comet Pan-STARRS will be visible with the naked eye to people in the Northern Hemisphere starting on Thursday.

A newly discovered asteroid similar to the big chunk that struck Russia two weeks ago is set to pass Earth on Tuesday morning.

NASA is hosting a teleconference Wednesday afternoon to announce new black hole observations from its new Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.

Fragments from the Meteor that streaked and exploded over the Ural Mountains in central Russia Friday were discovered by scientists in a frozen lake, Russian Media has reported.

Some pretty illustrious people have participated in Reddit’s IAmA sessions during the past few months, but Sunday may have seen the most bizarre -- and interesting -- question-and-answer session in the feature’s history as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield replied to queries while in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station.

A meteor’s flight across Russia, and word that a DA14 asteroid would narrowly avoid hitting earth Friday, has coincided with the publication of new evidence indicating the meteorite that hit earth millions of years ago wiped out the dinosaurs much faster than originally thought.

News of a meteor exploding over Russia made international headlines the same day that California residents reported seeing a fireball flying overhead on Friday.

More than 1,000 people were injured early Friday morning when a meteor rocketed across the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, but astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warned that the damage could be much worse in the future.

With the small near-Earth asteroid flyby on Feb. 15 and the meteor that broke apart over Russia on the same day, space objects crashing into Earth is a hot topic. To protect the earth, scientists have created a hypothetical asteroid defense system using lasers.

The small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 flyby Friday may be one for the record books. There are many ways to watch the historic event online.

A new video of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite footage shows the growth of winter storm Nemo from space.

After two Russian fighter jets entered Japanese airspace on Thursday, the Japanese military scrambled their fighter jets in a quick response.

William Shatner, forever known as Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, spoke Thursday with astronaut Chris Hadfield, a real Canadian in space.

Kate Winslet flashed her ring for the first time since her wedding to Ned Rocknroll.

Adult actress Coco Brown paid $100,000 to be the first porn star in space.

Iran says there's no monkey business afoot with its primate astronaut, claiming a supposed photo discrepancy is due to a media mix-up.

An asteroid is about to give Earth a record-breaking close shave, as it comes closer to the planet than any asteroid has before -- even closer than many satellites.

Iran touted a new home-made combat jet, but Western experts are skeptical.

The monkey that was presented post-flight and the monkey that was loaded into the capsule seem like very different animals.

A Russian rocket carrying a U.S.-made communications satellite reportedly plunged into the Pacific Ocean shortly after its launch Friday.

NASA will be launching a sounding rocket above Earth and it is expected to be quite the show. The rocket will eject red smoke above Earth creating a colorful display that will be visible along the East coast. For those who won’t be in the visibility area, there is a live stream for the launch tonight.