Humanity has been looking out into space for thousands of years, and the most important thing we've discovered over that time is that everything is crazy weird out there.

There are plenty of things you don't get to have when you're in space. Like gravity, for instance. Or normal food. But Super Bowl parties aren't on that list.

In the months and years after the Apollo 1 fire, stories surfaced that the crew had been victims of murder.

A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction -- the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet's species, including almost every dinosaur -- was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago.

In a video with the bleak title “We Stopped Dreaming,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the case for space exploration—and not just because it may help us find a new planetary home someday.

We've seen photography of the Moon, and photography taken on the Moon; people have even left photography gear up there.

I would have thought the earth would have looked bigger in perspective.

America’s car on Mars is finally being allowed to do what it was designed to do--fire up its hammer drill and bore into the Red Planet.

On Friday (Feb. 15), an asteroid half the length of a football field will buzz close by Earth. It won't hit the planet, but if it did, the collision would create an impact large enough to level 80 million trees — or the entire city of Washington, D.C., and its suburbs.

If you were offered a one-way trip to Mars, without the possibility of a return to Earth, would you take it?

All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.

On February 15 2013, a 45-meter wide asteroid known as "2012 DA14" will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth, which is approximately 1/12th of the way to the Moon and well within range of many Earth-orbiting satellites. While scientists don't anticipate a collision with Earth, it could make for some fantastic skywatching for space geeks in certain parts of the world.

Here's a summary of all 2013 Russian meteorite related things.

Astronomers are completely confident that the 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 is not going to hit us, passing "only" at 17,200 miles from Earth—the closest encounter with an asteroid ever predicted.

Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin urges nations to club together in absence of space debris interception technologies.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky loves to say crazy, anti-Western things, and he found a great opportunity today.

It wasn't nearly as dramatic as the fireball that exploded over Russia yesterday, but last night the San Francisco Bay Area saw its own light show last night when a meteor streaked across the night sky. NBC Bay Area reports that the fireball was spotted at approximately 7:45 pm last night, with...

The Russian meteor that exploded over Russia on Feb. 15 caused extensive damage and injured over 1,000 people. Here's the view from ground zero of a meteor strike.

Cleanup has begun a day after a meteor blast that took the world by surprise Friday shook Russia’s Chelyabinsk region. What the Associated Press describes as a “small army of workers” has mobilized to replace an estimated 50 acres of windows that were shattered by the sonic waves.

Early this morning, a fireball blazed over the Chelyabinsk region in Russia, shattering windows, collapsing roofs, and injuring hundreds of people. Given that it was one of the biggest meteors to hit Earth in possibly a century, why didn't we see it coming?