Space News

It's alive! ... Sort of. Reports of the death of China's first moon rover have been greatly exaggerated. According to state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua, Yutu, the nation's first moon rover, is now awake and has appare...

A new mathematical model says physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s dream of order without effort could be theoretically possible.

Concordia station offers the isolation and hardships explorers will face on the Red Planet. Here, where participants can’t be rescued from an unforgiving environment, the danger is real   --

NASA's next robotic moon lander Morpheus successfully completed its fifth free-flight test this week.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA will host a two-day NASA Social for 50 of its social media followers on April 1 and 2, 2014, at JPL in Pasadena and the Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Ca...

Holy amperage! Gifted photographer Michael Shainblum (who has been featured on this blog before, like here and here and here and here) just sent me a note that he took this outrageously jaw-dropping photo on Feb. 12, 201...

The massive storm system bringing miserable weather to the eastern United States can be seen blanketing the region in pictures from space. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this image of the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday ...

The monster winter storm that brought icing to the U.S. southeast moved northward along the Eastern Seaboard and brought snow, sleet and rain from the Mid-Atlantic to New England on February 13....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's IBEX shows an interstellar magnetic field that is nearly perpendicular to the motion of our solar system through the galaxy. This helps explain why we see more cosmic rays on on...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) Wednesday, Feb. 19, to announce new observations from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectr...

A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of "roadmap in the sky" for the interstellar magnetic field, scientists say.

Scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including a team leader from the University of New Hampshire, report that recent, independent measurements have validated one of the mission's signature...

A new NASA video of NOAA's GOES satellite imagery shows three days of movement of the massive winter storm that stretches from the southern U.S. to the northeast....

After more than two months of very slow driving due to concern about the wheels and time spent choosing whether to enter "Dingo Gap" or not, Curiosity has safely crossed the dune and resumed longer drives, achieving 75 m...

This space wallpaper shows Jupiter's moon Ganymede centered at 200 west longitude. This mosaic (right) served as the base map for the geologic map of Ganymede (left).

Yoda and high fashion are a surprising pair, but that's what audience members at Rodarte's New York Fashion Week show were treated to Tuesday (Feb. 11).

I have a new exercise routine where I watch Star Trek: The Next Generation most mornings of the week while doing my thing. Besides serving as awesome distraction, the episodes do get me thinking about how humans would ta...

Upcoming tele-operations test - Remote Robotic Oxidizer Transfer Test (RROxiTT) robot at the Kennedy Space Center will be controlled by engineers at the Goddard Space Center. A corrosive toxic liquid fuel (NTO) will be p...

Just a few days ago, we posted about possibly salty water flows on Mars. Of note, the NASA press release noted, moisture is likely more prevalent in the morning and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter does most observations ...

The largest moon in the solar system has finally received its cartographic due, more than 400 years after its discovery.

This gorgeous view of the Milky Way was taken by astrophotographer Tanja Sund during a trip to the desert in Nevada. Made from just two images, this long exposure (180 seconds) mosaic has incredible detail and stunning c...

See amazing photos of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system in this Space.com gallery made of images from NASA's Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft, as well as telescope images.