Space News

Here's the latest update on what's up in the night sky from Jane Houston Jones at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Moon will be your guide on how to spot the spring constellations and other popular astronomical sights ...

Last month, NASA announced plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2017. This is a satellite that will perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets in orbit around the brightest...

What goes up must always come down, right? Well, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) wants to test if that principle applies to antimatter. (...)Read the rest of Will Antimatter Obey Gravity's Pull? (433 ...

Just in time for May Day, the Sun blasted out a coronal mass ejection (CME) from just around the limb earlier today, May 1, 2013. In a gigantic rolling wave, this CME shot out about a billion tons of particles into space...

Artist's concepts illustrate how gravitational waves might spread through the universe.

As a space telescope scientist or satellite operator, the last thing you want to hear is that your expensive and possibly one-of-a kind -- maybe irreplaceable -- spacecraft is in danger of colliding with a piece of space...

Looking almost like a cosmic hyacinth, this image is anything but a cool, Spring flower... it's a portrait of an enormous gas cloud radiating more than seven million degrees Kelvin and enveloping two merging spiral galax...