Nasa's search for Earth-like planets outside our solar system suffered a potentially catastrophic setback as its Kepler telescope broke down in orbit ...
Nasa has started full testing on a remarkable next-generation 'Dream Chaser' mini space shuttle, developed by a private company. The Sierra Nevada ...
A team of astrobiologists has launched a Kickstarter to build a concept garden tended by robots ahead of its deployment on a - purely hypothetical - m...
The Sun has expelled a third intense X-Class solar flare in 24 hours - but Nasa says not to worry. It is "not physically capable of destroying Ear...
You wait all year for a X-class solar flare and then two come along in 24 hours. On 12 May a solar eruption was spotted by Nasa's Solar dynamics Ob...
Canadian astronaut and social media sensation Chris Hadfield took many amazing videos before he returned from the Space Station. But on some of the...
His poignant version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity has made astronaut Chris Hadfield one of the coolest men not on the planet. And a look at h...
How do you improve the classic David Bowie song 'Space Oddity'. Sing it aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to mark the end of one of the ...
The Huffington Post pictures of the day brings you the very best images from around the world chosen by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Matthew...
Nasa have captured loads of beautiful solar flares from its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) but that isn't the only eye they have on the Sun. The ...
Nasa photographer John Grant has captured a strange sight above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The odd blue clouds look like a unique aurora ...
A Chinese Nasa contractor who was accused of espionage after FBI agents arrested him at Dulles International Airport has been exonerated. But the m...
An estate agent claims to have sold more than 7.5% of the Moon's surface. Despite there being no current laws about real estate in space - and with...
Nasa has announced an amazing new autonomous, solar-powered rover to explore strange, icy landscapes in our Solar System. Well, on Earth actually. ...
We are longtime fans of Canadian astronaut and current International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield. From telling the world how to throw up...
It was a valiant attempt but this huge solar flare didn't quite have enough velocity to escape the clutches of the Sun's gravitational field. Obser...
They may have come a long way since the Cold War, but collaboration in space between Russia and the US still have their price - £273 million to be pr...
Nasa has posted an amazing video of the moment its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope almost collided with another satellite in orbit above the Earth. ...
Hurricane Sandy killed 285 people, devastated most of America's east coast and caused $75 billion of damage in just nine days last year. Now imagin...
Earlier this year the world's press - including the Huffington Post - was hugely excited by the news that the Voyager 1 space craft had left the solar...
Nasa really does have a lot of time on its hands. Fresh from drawing a penis on Mars, the American space agency has now published a photo of one it...
Following news that Nasa's $800 million Mars Rover had accidently drawn a penis on the surface of the Red Planet, a fresh image released by the space ...
A comet that could be as bright as the full Moon when it passes Earth this November has been pictured in detail for the first time. Comet ISON was ...
Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis. The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years...
Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis. The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years...
