Space News

Japan's brand-new Epsilon rocket soared into space Saturday (Sept. 14) in a debut launch that carried a novel satellite into orbit to gaze at other planets in our solar system.

From a stunning solar prominence to an aurora over finland, don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

From a photobombing frog to a baseball-size meteor, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week for Sept. 14, 2013.

Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will postpone by at least 24 hours the launch of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station. The new launch window is tar...

Voyager 1 is now officially in interstellar space, but doesn't mean NASA can't see the far-flung spacecraft. See a photo of NASA's Voyager 1 radio signal glow as seen through an array of radio telescopes on Earth.

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Some good news to start your weekend: the newest member of our deep-space fleet, LADEE, has successfully completed its checkout phase and is now officially in its cruise phase. It is still in Earth orbit, headed for Luna...

Friday the 13th is a lucky day for NASA's newest moon probe. Today (Sept. 13), NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft performed the first of three major burns expected to send the probe ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: New images from NASA's Dawn mission show the giant asteroid Vesta at the scale of regional road touring maps.