Space News

Edward Mango will be replaced on an acting basis by his deputy Kathryn Lueders.

NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.

Recently NASA reported that this year's maximum wintertime extent of Antarctic sea ice was the largest on record, even greater than the previous year's record.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter may not be as often in the limelight as its charming terrestrial equivalent, Curiosity (I mean, it doesn't even have a Twitter account), but it's gotten some fresh appreci...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has batted 1,000 with its new technique for covering ground faster -- two-day drives, reaching a viewpoint for choosing its next target.

(Phys.org) --For people in the eastern United States, the sun will rise half covered by the moon on Sunday morning, November 3, and the partial eclipse will last about 3/4 of an hour. Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Profes...

(Phys.org) --A NASA spacecraft that will examine the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail is undergoing final preparations for a scheduled 1:28 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force St...

(Phys.org) --NASA's first-ever deep space craft, Orion, has been powered on for the first time, marking a major milestone in the final year of preparations for flight.

SpaceX – of course – is already one of my favorite companies on the planet, or even throughout Known Space . They’re not-so-quietly revolutionizing the terran space industry with... --

It has baffled humans for millennia: how did life begin on planet Earth? Now, new research from a Texas Tech University paleontologist suggests it may have rained from the skies and started in the bowels of hell.

A new, smaller version of NASA's space shuttle is recuperating from a rough first landing.

Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes ev...

Tax incentives approved by the Brazilian government for transport, energy and farming are fueling higher CO2 emissions, according to a study released Tuesday.

A space rock the size of a tractor-trailer is set to harmlessly fly by Earth today, zipping between our planet and the moon. Asteroid 2013 UV3, which is 39 to 89 feet wide, will make its closest approach at 5:44 p.m. EDT...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Built with spare parts and without a moment to spare, the International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat isn't your average NASA Earth science mission.

Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year...

Satellite data showed some recent convective activity within Tropical Storm Raymond on Oct. 28 but southwesterly wind shear and cooler ocean temperatures are predicted by the National Hurricane Center to weaken the tropi...

NASA infrared imagery revealed that bands of thunderstorms have been wrapping into the center of newborn Tropical Depression 29W, indicating it's organizing and strengthening in the Philippine Sea.

Coral reefs may be able to adapt to moderate climate warming, improving their chance of surviving through the end of this century, if there are large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, according to a study funded by...

The high cliffs of Eastern Siberia - which mainly consist of permafrost - continue to erode at an ever quickening pace. This is the conclusion which scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar ...

We report on the current state of Plutonium-238 production in the United States, a crucial fuel source for planetary exploration spacecraft.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: On November 1 NASA will launch a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter payload from the White Sands to study the role of this hot gas in solar system fo...