Space News

The spacesuits and backpacks used on "Marswalks" at the Mars Desert Research Station are not quite the real deal, but feel real enough when you put one on.

Engineers testing the parachute system for NASA's Orion spacecraft increased the complexity of their tests Thursday, Jan. 16, adding the jettison of hardware designed to keep the capsule safe during flight....

Thirteen years ago, a satellite acquired this beautiful image of light and sand playing off a portion of the ocean floor in the Bahamas....

Little by little we’re getting sharper, clearer pictures from the Chinese Chang’e 3 moon mission. Yesterday the lander beamed back a series of new photos taken with its panoramic camera. Stitched together, they give ...

From a photo showing a spooky looking nebula to a striking new photo of a doomed star, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Jan. 18, 2014.

From a stunning time-lapse video of the night sky from northern Chile, to a dazzling image of star trails over the Canary Islands, don't miss these spectacular night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

Four private companies working to eventually launch astronauts into space with NASA are gearing up for a big year in 2014.

The deluge of mission data poses some big challenges for NASA. But a team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is coming up with new strategies to tackle problems of information storage, processing and access.

Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft has made the company's first contracted resupply flight to the International Space Station -- delivering more than twenty-seven hundred pounds of cargo -- including dozens of new scien...

NASA Breaking News: Engineers and safety specialists from NASA and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) gathered in Morro Bay, Calif., in late December to demonstrate how the company's Dragon spacecraft's parachute sy...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft carries three NASA instruments.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA will participate in the fifth annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge Friday, Jan. 17, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass.

NASA Breaking News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Jan. 17 to view progress on the advanced space propulsion technologies the center is developing to carry cargo and A...

The Dragon test article successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December. The parachute deployment system was evaluated as part of their Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement with NASA.

The two-part Rosetta spacecraft is designed to orbit and land on a comet. See how it will orbit and land on the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program is getting its largest annual budget allocation to date in an omnibus spending bill for 2014 that provides $17.6 billion overall for the space agency.

Astronomers observing a baby star found evidence that planets might be forming in a ring of cosmic dust far from the solar system's center. In fact, the scientists say they have never before seen alien worlds spawning th...

The Space Exploration Alliance is descending on the halls of Congress to advocate for space exploration. Join me and others on Feb 23rd - 25th in Washington, D.C. and speak up for space.