Space

UPDATE Tuesday, April 14, 3:38pm: Today's launch is on as scheduled for 4:10pm. Watch the livestream below: UPDATE 4:28pm: Weather has scrubbed today's launch, which is now scheduled for 4:10pm tomorrow. We'll keep the live feed up here so you can watch. Happening right now - Commercial space company SpaceX will launch their Falcon 9 rocket in a little less than an hour (scheduled for 4:30pm) and

At this early point in the retail availability of 4K resolution TVs and monitors, most of us don't have them yet. But, that being said, I highly recommend that you find the biggest monitor that you can find, if you have a smart TV with YouTube, even better, and watch this video full screen at the best resolution that you can manage. 4K or not, it's still totally mind blowing and totally cool. Watc

Yesterday's Antares rocket explosion stunned everyone when it was broadcast live on televisions and computers around the world. Since then, more videos have come out from spectators nearby. But this may be the most stunning - taken by a small airplane pilot who was flying at 3,000 feet. I got goosebumps when watching the moment that the pilot realized that something had obviously gone wrong with t

Moments ago, NASA's Antares rocket, launched from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia has exploded on liftoff.

UPDATE - 10/28 - 6:25pm: The Antares rocket has "failed after liftoff"

You'll probably be up late tonight anyway finishing those last minute taxes, so take a few minutes to step outside for a somewhat rare celestial event. Tonight (well, actually early tomorrow morning), there will be a "blood moon" lunar eclipse.

If you have a lot of friends in New Jersey on your Facebook, you've probably seen pictures similar to this one dozens of times today. Here at the Jersey shore, there's a bright, vivid rainbow circling the Sun. Get ready for some science, here's why...

There wasn't a whole lot of news coverage yesterday, but make no mistake, a pretty significant milestone was reached in the Mojave Desert of California yesterday morning.

A few weeks ago we asked if you thought that the picture above was an actual mummified alien, as some were claiming.

Between light pollution and our mid-Atlantic location, New Jersey usually isn't a hot bed of astronomical activity. But this weekend, the conditions could be just right for a light show in the sky.