Space News

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy radioed Mission Control to report an 'unidentified object' floating outside the International Space Station on Aug. 19, 2013. Was it a UFO? No, NASA says, just an antenna cover from the stati...

Enjoy this tour of the Arctic and Greenland, courtesy of the pilots of IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission to survey the ice at both of Earth's poles. These views come from NASA's P-3B aircraft, and the video is a selecti...

See photos and images from NASA's LADEE mission to study moon dust and the lunar atmosphere like never before. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer launches in 2013 to probe the moon's tenuous atmosphere.

Since finishing the classifications for the GZ: Quench project, many of our volunteers have been analyzing that consensus data using the tools at tools.galaxyzoo.org. We made a few changes to the site earlier this week, ...

A privately built space plane successfully completed a series of key tests earlier this month, as part of an ongoing effort to judge the winged vehicle's ability to one day carry astronauts to and from the International ...

This month's full moon, which rises on Tuesday (Aug. 20), is not just a Blue Moon -- it's also the Full Sturgeon Moon, the Full Red Moon, the Green Corn Moon and the Grain Moon.

If you want to get inside a planet or moon fast, the European Space Agency says lobbing a spacecraft at the surface might be a good approach. This concept may sound like suicide. A recent prototype test, however, showed ...

Get the latest news on 3D printing in space. See how NASA and private companies are making space manufacturing and on-demand parts a reality.

It’s always exciting to see a new Galaxy Zoo paper out, but today’s release of our latest is really exciting. Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304,122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Surve...