Amy Teitel

There's just something about asteroids and meteorites that really brings out the weird beards and sensationalist news reports.

Good news for people who enjoy being alive: The world isn’t going to end tomorrow when an asteroid comes close to hitting Earth. But it is going to be one hell of a close shave, coming within 17,000 miles of the planet’s surface.

NASA's proposals sure are getting more and more science fiction-y.

Will we find an Earth twin in 2013?

The space agency says faster-than-light travel might be possible. Emphasis on the "might."

Space might be one of the few arenas where a no news becomes news.

Hanging out with rockstars and hangers-on at Atlantis's last ride.

So let's go for a vacation!

Khrushchev wanted a launch to correspond with the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on November 7. Korolev said he could do it and upped the ante. He suggested this second Sputnik carry a dog.

Astronomers are treating it like a crime scene, forensically analyzing the splatter for figure out just what happened.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that reusing hardware saves money, though rocket scientists are on the recycling mission too. SpaceX is getting on the reusability bandwagon first with its Dragon capsule (it’s designed to be reused, but...

How a clunky little ball caused mass hysteria - and launched the space race.