Space News

The newest cosmic toys under the sun will be on display at an international convention kicking off this weekend.

This satellite image shows the heart-shaped Miscanti lake and smaller Miñiques lake in northern Chile....

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

Wonder and terror. Every time I watch the dashcam videos of the Chelyabinsk fireball it sends chills down my spine. One year ago today, February 15, 2013, the good citizens of Chelyabinsk, Russia and surrounding towns co...

NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able to observe the northern auroras in ultraviolet wav...

(Phys.org) --Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Oppor...

NASA scientists were finally able to explain the origin of the mysterious rock shaped like a jelly doughnut that appeared near the rover Opportunity in early January.

With the space station no longer "under construction," the world's most advanced orbital laboratory is open for business. The station has just received a 10-year extension from NASA, giving researchers the time they need...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of France's National Center of Space Studies or CNES, signed an agreement for cooperation on the lander for NASA's future InSight mission to Mars....

A NASA Mars Curiosity rover team member gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission....

One year ago the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and releasing more energy than a l...

An asteroid the size of three football fields is set to make a close brush of Earth on Monday (Feb. 17), and you can watch the flyby live in a webcast. Near-Earth asteroid 2000 EM26 poses no threat of actually hitting Ea...

From the first map of Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede, to shining gigantic black hole jets, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Feb. 15, 2014.

A few days ago, a very interesting (and very funny) video was posted to YouTube. A skydiver's helmet-mounted camera came loose and fell out of the airplane just before the diver was ready to jump. The camera fell all the...

On Feb. 15, 2013, a 65-foot-wide asteroid detonated in the skies over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, causing millions of dollars of damage and injuring 1,500 people. The dramatic event served as a wake-up call to the r...

How do you sense the world beyond a spacesuit's restrictions?

Read chapter one of Andy Weir's new novel, "The Martian."

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA is pursuing new partnerships and collaborations to accelerate existing work to find near-Earth asteroids and know what to do about them.

Lockheed Martin, in concert with the Pentagon, is looking to drum up interest among U.S. allies in the next-generation satellite communications system it is building for the U.S. Navy as means of sustaining the existing ...

The U.S. Air Force expects to complete a series of studies that could help reshape the service's space portfolio into the 2020s.

A historic mockup of a NASA space shuttle crew compartment has grown wings and a tail to launch as a new full-scale exhibit at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Ohio.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: Four current and upcoming SPHERES projects are of particular significance to NASA exploration and anyone who uses communications systems on Earth.