Space News

Earth observation image of the week: false-colour image of Africa's highest mountain, also featured in the Earth from Space video programme

After a decade of roving relentlessly on the Red Planet, NASA's Opportunity rover discovered rocks that preserve the best evidence yet that ancient Mars was the most conducive time period for the formation of life on our...

The 3.8-ton TDRS-L spacecraft lifted off at 9:33 p.m. EST tonight (0233 GMT Friday) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, its Atlas 5 rocket searing an arc of bright-orange flame into the dark sky as it climbe...

Engineers have developed wall-crawling robots utilizing 'dry adhesive' technology inspired by gecko lizards. ESA and the Simon Fraser University are pioneering the effort for their possible use in space.

Ted Stryk reports on the status of the New Horizons mission from the mission's latest Science Team Meeting.

Researchers from the University of Hawaii-Manoa (UHM) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and University of California ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: In this new Hubble image two objects are clearly visible, shining brightly. When they were first discovered in 1979, they were thought to be separate objects -- however, astronomers so...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft to a comet.

Host: Fraser Cain Special Guests: Stephen Pakbaz, designer of the LEGO Mars Rover Kit, and Ray Sanders from CosmoQuest, who is unboxing and building the kit as we hang out! Astrojournalists: Morgan Rehnberg, Sondy Spring...

Night sky photographer Scott MacNeill captured this beautiful image of a lunar halo over an observatory in Charlestown, R.I. See the story behind the image here.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Ted Stryk reports on the status of the New Horizons mission from the mission's latest Science Team Meeting. Updates include the status of the Kuiper Belt target search and the use of ALMA to refine Pluto's ephemeris.

Today: Body Measures Investigation: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata, with operator assistance from FE-3 Hopkins, set up cameras and cabin video, performed body marker instrumentation, and collected calibration and body pos...

The U.S. Navy has formally accepted three of a planned four General Dynamics-built ground stations for its next-generation mobile communications satellite program.

Stephen Hawking has set the world of physics back on its heels by reversing his lifetime's work and a pillar of modern physics claiming that black holes do not exist - saying that the idea of an event horizon, the...

(Phys.org) --NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014--a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and pointing cont...

Today’s Radio Galaxy Zoo post is by Ray Norris, our Project Advisor. Ray researches how galaxies formed and evolved after the Big Bang, using radio, infrared, and optical telescopes. In Radio Galaxy Zoo, some bright ra...

The Planetary Society released an official statement today recognizing the unprecedented achievement of maintaining an operating rover on the surface of Mars for a decade.

MDA has awarded Lockheed Martin a $32 million contract modification to provide targets for use in testing the agency's ballistic missile interceptors.

RoboSimian was one of 16 robots that competed last month in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials in Homestead, Fla. The two-day competition was designed to test the robots' abilities to carry out basic disaster-relief tas...

Remember those snorkels and pads astronauts used during the ammonia pump replacement on station this past December? The new measures went a long way to helping astronauts stay safe if another helmet water leak happens, b...

European governments are seeking assistance worldwide in blocking an attempt by terrestrial-wireless broadband interests to use a slice of radio spectrum now reserved for radar Earth observation satellites.