Space News

Roughly 1 million asteroids pose a threat to Earth. A distinguished group of astronauts gathered in NYC today to discuss how international space agencies can work together to defend against these threats to life on Earth...

U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has blocked the White House's nomination of the agency's chief financial officer, Beth Robinson, to become the U.S. undersecretary of energy.

The Martian Geologic Time Scale is a lot more complicated than the Moon's.

Veteran astrophotographer John Chumack has captured amazing new Comet ISON photos and shared the series with SPACE.com. See how he made them here.

NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes will observe six galaxy clusters over the next three years during The Frontier Fields project. The trio should be able to spot galaxies that existed just a few hundred ...

Science@NASA: Astronauts aren't the only ones who need to worry about solar flares. High-latitude air travelers can also be exposed to significant doses of radiation during solar storms. A new computer model developed by...

Sunspot AR1882 has made its presence known with a flurry of flares on October 25th, 2013. The second X-class eruption registered in the X2 range. Both X-flares are seen in the video.

This stunning space wallpaper is a false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan,...

If you enjoy a dramatic spectacle in the sky, you have probably heard about Comet ISON, currently streaking toward the sun. (If you haven't heard about it, bear with me--I'll try to make it worth your while.) But the med...

We’re back in business! This week was pretty phenomenal with Shutdown’s effects on science, evolution, history of sand, Google Flu, the chemist that is nature… Quick note before I... --

Britain mounted a fresh crusade Friday to slash EU red tape London says strangles business--with a core demand that Brussels does not interfere with legislation on fracking.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: New theoretical research has so-called diamond planets coming up dry.

SpaceX will perform these tests at Stennis' E-2 test facility, which will require an upgrade to accommodate the full Raptor engine.

At a public event today at New York's American Museum of Natural History, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), a professional society of astronauts and cosmonauts, issued a challenge to the global community to take ...

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion ground test vehicle has been lifted high in the air by crane in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building....

The most recent flare, which erupted at 11:03 a.m. EDT Friday, registered as an X-class event, the most powerful type. It clocked in at X2.1 on the space weather scale, beating out the X1.7 flare that the sun fired off j...

The Sun erupted again today, blasting out a pair of X-class flares within hours of each other, the first such high-energy flares since May. The image above is from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which stares at...

“If we get hit 20 years from now, that’s not bad luck. That’s stupidity.” That’s what former NASA astronaut Ed Lu has to say about asteroids and our efforts to search for them. He delivered those comments at a ...

The gibbous moon, which is 56 percent illuminated, will emerge from above the east-northeast horizon around 11:20 p.m. local time tonight. And shining brightly roughly 7 degrees above it will be the largest planet in our...

Cold air, mid-latitude westerly winds and wind shear are taking a toll on Tropical Storm Francisco and transitioning the storm into a cold core low pressure area. NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Francisco as ...

NASA's TRMM satellite observed Typhoon Lekima's shrinking eye on Oct. 24, and by the Oct. 25, the eye had shrunk to just 4 nautical miles. TRMM also observed very heavy rainfall occurring around the eyewall of the storm.

Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows.