Space News

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its third rocket-powered supersonic flight in the Mojave Desert, soaring to a record 71,000 feet.

NASA Associate ISS Program Scientist Tara Ruttley talks about the experiment and other science on the latest Orbital Sciences cargo run.

Today: Orbital 1 Status: Following yesterday's successful launch, the Cygnus spacecraft completed Delta Velocity (DV) burns 1 - 4 successfully....

NASA aircraft and scientists have returned to the United States after a short ice-surveying mission to Antarctica....

Saturn's auroras put on a dazzling display of light....

Cloud Streets over the Atlantic OceanIn the midst of a cold snap that sent temperatures 20-40F (11-22C) below normal across much of the United States....

The Quadrantid meteor shower peaked last week on Jan. 3. The Earth plowed through the debris left behind by the asteroid 2003 EH, creating thousands of shooting stars in the sky. Most debris trails are left by comets and...

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - The Cygnus commercial resupply freighter is hurtling towards the International Space Station (ISS) at 17,500 MPH following the flawless Jan. 9 blastoff from NASA Wallops Island, Va., atop the Orbital...

See amazing images of the aptly named Tarantula Nebula in deep space, also known as 30 Doradus. The nebula is located in a prominent region of star formation located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) the nearest neighb...

The robotic spacecraft that launched to the International Space Station Thursday (Jan. 9) may have been unmanned, but it was packed with 800 living six-legged spaceflyers.

The longed-for dawn of private manned space travel appears near at hand. Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo, for example, aced its third supersonic test flight on Friday, and company officials say they remain on t...

It has been little more than a year since one key partner, the European Space Agency, committed to participating through 2020, a decision widely viewed as a compromise between ESA's two biggest contributors, France and G...

Some work on Webb is behind schedule and fueling concerns about a near-term cash crunch, but the agency still expects to finish the $8.8 billion astronomy flagship in plenty of time to make a scheduled October 2018 launc...