Space News

Comet Lovejoy is putting on a show for sky watchers in 2013.

Europe's Arianespace commercial launch consortium on Dec. 6 agreed to spend 36.5 million euros ($50 million) to build a fueling facility at Europe's South American spaceport to reduce the time needed between Ariane 5, So...

Dr. Holly Gilbert, NASA Solar Physics Laboratory Chief/Goddard Spaceflight Center, explains what happens when the magnetic field of the Sun reverses polarity and when the process will be complete.

A classified U.S. spy payload rocketed into orbit from California on an Atlas 5 launcher Thursday, joining the nation's eyes and ears in the sky to supply intelligence to the government's national security agencies.

China's maiden moon landing probe successfully entered lunar orbit on Friday, Dec. 6, following Sunday's (Dec. 1) spectacular blastoff – setting the stage for the historic touchdown attempt in mid December. Engineer's ...

Less than five days after leaving Earth atop a blazing Long March launcher, China's Chang'e 3 spacecraft reached lunar orbit Friday to prepare for an historic rocket-assisted touchdown in the moon's Bay of Rainbows later...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3. See photos of the launch and launch prep.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog.

Maintaining a record of solar measurements is important in understanding the sun's effect on Earth and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA), Total solar irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment,...

Offshore from Argentina, spring is in bloom. Massive patches of floating phytoplankton colored the ocean in November 2013....

A NASA astrophysicist has confirmed the existence of giant convection cells -approximately 200,000 kilometers in diameter -- flowing slowly on the sun, lending further insight into the transport of heat from its core and...

David Deutsch, a pioneer of quantum computing and a physicist at Oxford, came up with a simplified model of time travel to deal with the paradoxes that would occur if one could travel back in time. For example, would it....

Have you seen the latest optical illusion that's been going around the web? You simply won't believe your eyes. Nor should you. Here it is: What's the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozenge-shapes are the same sha...

Gliding smoothly through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn continues to make good progress on its ambitious mission of exploration. It is patiently but persistently pursuing Ceres, the second destinat...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Students from 19 high school teams across Southern California, as well as NASA professionals, took part in a "Hole-in-One" contest in this year's JPL Invention Challeng...

Habitation of outer space needs solving air, water, energy and food supplies within a tight space. And this isn't a problem of an apocalyptic, remote future.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA researchers, including some from JPL, will present new findings on Earth and space science topics at the next week's American Geophysical Union meeting.

A volcano on Mercury may have been active over an unprecedented billion-year time span.

Japanese Astronaut Koichi Wakata managed to see Comet ISON's tail from the International Space Station before it disintegrated on its pass around the sun.

Find out what happened aboard the International Space Station during the week ending December 6th, 2013. NASA's Josh Byerly gives you the run down.

It is that time of year again, when you need to find a gift for that 'spacial' person in your life -- your favorite space geek. Fear not, you needn't buy your aspiring astronaut a ticket to space for your present to be t...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Two tiny, cube-shaped research satellites hitched a ride to Earth orbit to validate new hardware and software technologies for future NASA Earth-observing instruments.