Space News

An astronaut prepares to install protective covers on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Meet Anna Kapinska, Radio Galaxy Zoo science team member from the University of Western Australia: I was born and grew up in Poland, where I also did my undergrad studies in astronomy. Since then astronomy was the force ...

Turkey's first medium-resolution optical Earth observation satellite, the domestically built Gokturk-2, has completed a year in orbit with successful operations that have no geographical restrictions on image gathering f...

The accord will enable Stratcom to provide data from the Joint Space Operations Center directly to the French military upon request.

Scientists have found twenty sun-like stars moving fast enough to escape the galaxy.

A second crack at installing the UrtheCast cameras on the International Space Station also ran into data trouble, according to a press release from NASA, although the company involved with the cameras says it is still wa...

(Phys.org) --Using the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flow...

In Chinese astrology, the rabbit represents hope. And scientists in China are holding out hope that the country's moon rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), can be repaired after it experienced a mechanical control abnormality Satu...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: 2013 was a big year for NASA's center in Silicon Valley. Check out some of our many notable accomplishments.

NAOJ Top News: Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have found that local physical conditions near Super Massive Black Holes (SMBH) primarily determine their activation.

There's an often told anecdote that astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus never spied Mercury. And while this tale is almost certainly apocryphal, it does speak to just how elusive the innermost planet of our solar system reall...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The world enters a new era of global weather observing and climate science in February with the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a new internation...

Less than a year from now, the New Horizons spacecraft will begin its encounter with Pluto. While closest approach is scheduled for July 2015, the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or "LORRI" will begin snapping photos of...

Photographer Justin Ng captured the glow of inner solar system dust scattering sunlight over 3 Indonesian volcanoes, the active Semeru and Bromo plus the dormant Batok. Planets Venus, Saturn and Mercury lie within this f...

An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe.

You thought you were rid of us...but we're back! Following the spectacular and, quite frankly unprecedented, success of the Comet ISON Observing Campaign, we are launching a similar venture for another unique cometary en...

Bitter cold lies ahead for many skywatchers in the U.S. and Canada in the coming week as the polar vortex swoops down from Santa’s village for round two this season. Will that stop you from going out to enjoy the winte...

"They could be staring us in the face and we just don't recognize them. The problem is that we're looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technolo...

In a rare example of cloudy weather helping astronomy rather than hurting it, the team that found M82′s new supernova swung a telescope in that direction only because their planned targets for the night were obscured, ...

As compensation for the long, dark, cold winters near the Arctic Circle, residents sometimes get views like this. “We had some auroras on January 23rd, but with no movement,” said astrophotographer Frank Olsen from B...

Work has been progressing steadily on all three main parts of Orion - the service module, the crew module and the launch abort system - and this month the service module joined the launch abort system in crossing the fin...

This stunning space wallpaper is a false-color image from Japan's ALOS satellite acquired over part of southern Kenya and the border with Tanzania. Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania can be seen in the lower-left corner.