Outer Space Blog

To celebrate Halloween, New Scientist Space has assembled a gallery of spine-tingling images from space.

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Bit by bit, the new rocket ship that is supposed to blast America into the second Space Age and return astronauts to the moon appears to be coming undone.

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In this day and age, people engage in their right to vote from all over the world. But this Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts.

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A nearby solar system bears a striking similarity to our own solar system, raising the possibility it could harbor Earth-like planets.

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Imagine: You have been selected as one of the first six people to go to Mars and your sole mission is to set up a manned outpost on the Red Planet. Forget the science, forget the long-term goal to spread humanity amongst the planets, your one and only task is to survive.

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For years, scientists have wondered whether there might be water ice on the Moon’s surface. New images suggest that, in fact,there is no surface ice in the Shackleton crater on the moon.

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NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week’s repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology. But sometimes, mission managers say, simple is good when you’re out in space—as long as you know how to talk to decades-old computers.

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Early Wednesday morning, Oct.15, a network of all-sky cameras captured a bright, slow fireball in the sky near Guelph, Ontario.

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Saturn’s tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA’s Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches - once coming within a mere 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface.

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