Officials consider building Canadian rocket

Canada currently relies on other countries to launch its spacecraft into orbit, but both the Defence…

Moonstruck: Lunar eclipse meets winter solstice in rare cosmic coincidence

Canadians coast-to-coast can witness the rare cosmic coincidence of the winter solstice aligning with a lunar…

Winter solstice to coincide with lunar eclipse for first time in 456 years

This year's winter solstice will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that has…

Three blast off on trip to space station

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a crew of three to the International Space Station blasted off…

Voyager 1 reaches solar system’s outer edge

The U.S. space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the outer edge of the solar system…

SpaceX’s ‘secret’ payload? A wheel of cheese

In the historic launch of its Dragon space capsule Wednesday, Hawthorne, Calif.,-based rocket venture SpaceX didn’t…

Newly discovered exoplanet stirs debate on how planetary systems form

The grainy images and videos of the distant solar system are not much to look at,…

The future of commercial space flight?

U.S. company SpaceX will attempt Thursday to launch its first space capsule into orbit and back,…

Russian satellite launch fails

Three Russian satellites crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after a failed launch, in a…

U.S. military spacecraft back on ground after 7 months

An unmanned U.S. Air Force spacecraft with a vaguely defined military mission landed early Friday in…