Space News

NASA Breaking News: Three new Expedition 37 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 25 (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time, Thursday, Sept. 26) on a six-hour trek to the In...

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched a new U.S.-Russian crew on an "express" flight to the International Space Station Wednesday (Sept. 25), kicking off a six-hour sprint to the orbiting laboratory.

The final moments of a lunar orbiter, as told in a song composed by the moon itself.

See photos from the Expedition 37 mission to the International Space Station, including Soyuz launch and landings, in mid-2013.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Media are invited to the debut of a new Visitor Center exhibit at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Wednesday, Oct. 2.

This stunning space wallpaper shows the Soyuz rocket as it heads out by train to the launch pad on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

We're two weeks in to 'Dancing with the Stars' season 17, and Bill Nye has shown that, true to his TV-theme song lyric, "science rules" in the eyes of the audience.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This is a photo of many of the people who supported NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel Mission at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. during the 2013 mission. G...

What happens if you fall into a black hole? According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the fall would be uneventful, until at some point the force of gravity would rip you apart. But a new theory suggests a ...

Great news everybody! We applied for radio observations with the e-MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. The e-MERLIN network can link up radio dishes across the UK to form a really, really large radio telescope ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., sits a massive thermal vacuum chamber. A new video shows how engineers use the chamber to test equipment that will fly aboa...

The 24 awardees represent a diverse group of scientists, artists, writers, academics and activists. Seager was selected for her groundbreaking exoplanet research, which has led to ever-better models of the atmospheres an...

University of Wisconsin: For astrophysicists, the interplay of hydrogen - the most common molecule in the universe - and the vast clouds of dust that fill the voids of interstellar space has been an intractable puzzle of...

Using a phone to search for signs of life? Yeah, we can get behind that. One group of researchers has a system that they’ve been testing out in analog environments with the aim of (eventually, one day, they hope) it be...

Io is the most volcanically active object in the solar system, dissipating its massive stores of internal heat via intense eruptions. Earth may have gone through a similar phase in its youth, before the planet cooled eno...

A perplexing fast-spinning star just might be the 'missing link' in a long-standing pulsar mystery, scientists say. A newfound neutron star 18,000 light-years from Earth alternates between two kinds of pulsars in a never...

It's like watching siblings tussle: Astronomers have finally witnessed a long-sought example of pulsar evolution. Designated PSR J1824-2452I, this X-ray Binary is being spun up to millisecond speeds by a tiny companion, ...

ESA Top News: Astronomers using ESA's Integral and XMM-Newton space observatories have caught a fast-spinning 'millisecond pulsar' in a crucial evolutionary phase for the first time, as it swings between emitting pulses ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are collaborating on a portable radar device to detect victims trapped in large piles of rubble after a disaster.

After 10 years in space — looking at so many galaxies and stars and other astronomy features — the Spitzer Space Telescope is being deployed for new work: searching for alien worlds. The telescope is designed to peer...

A "Star Trek" fan with an artistic streak is bringing his unique vision of the beloved TV show to other Trekkers around the world.

Juan Ortiz, a 'Star Trek' fan with an artistic streak, is bringing his unique vision of the beloved TV show to other Trekkers around the world. See his amazing 'Star Trek' art here.