Space News

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Recently arrived physician Dr. Kimberly Beck wants to see you when you're healthy and keep you that way.

To mark the first anniversary of Galileo's historic first satnav positioning measurement, ESA plans to award certificates to groups who picked up signals from the four satellites in orbit to perform their own fixes.

Which way to the center of the galaxy? This very creative — and gorgeous — view of the Milky Way was taken this past weekend (March 9, 2014) by astrophotographer Carlos Orue from Australia. Carlos said the Milky Way ...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: Microbes swabbed by citizen scientists have been sent to the space station for research. Get real-time updates at #spacemicrobes.

When you think of the asteroid belt, you probably imagine a region of rock and dust, with asteroids as far as the eye can see. Such a visual has been popularized in movies, where spaceships must swerve left and right to ...

Amanda Zangari shares what it's like to be a scientist on New Horizons, and explains some of the day-to-day workings of the mission behind the scenes.

The head of Air Force Space Command has a response to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

In the quest to track Comet Siding Spring, the Mars Express team tells us how computing the orbit of a comet isn't as straightforward as science fiction would have us believe.

I am very excited to announce the next SciAm/Read Science! collaboration. My cohost, Jeff, and I will feature two guests who are well known independently for their work in science communication, but... --

It’s one of those rumors that just won’t quiet down — a large planet lurking at the solar system’s edge. Back in the 1840s, when Neptune was discovered, its orbit seemed to be a little “off” from what was exp...

Lockheed announced a free reflight or refund for non-U.S. government customers of its Atlas 5 rocket in the event of a launch failure and an overhaul of its satellite production line to better appeal to the commercial ma...

Lockheed announced a free reflight or refund for non-U.S. government customers of its Atlas 5 rocket in the event of a launch failure and an overhaul of its satellite production line to better appeal to the commercial ma...

This space wallpaper is an artist's impression showing the yellow hypergiant star HR 5171. This is a very rare type of star with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1300 times that of our Sun -- one of the...

NOTE: Jen-Luc Piquant is delighted to feature a guest post today by fellow science writer Amanda Gefter, author of the wonderful new book, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: A Father, a Daughter,... --

NASA is turning to industry for help funding laser-communications technology the agency hopes one day to use in the space-based, data-relay system that keeps Earth-orbiting spacecraft in touch with the ground.

The slow process of capturing science data is about to go into serious overdrive with a NASA laser communication experiment set to launch to the International Space Station.

NASA Breaking News: Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea...

Marking a new era in Earth observation, Sentinel-1A is set for launch on 3 April. Discover the first mission for Europe's Copernicus programme

A stellar monster lurks in heart of the Centaur. A recent analysis of a star in the south hemisphere constellation of Centaurus has highlighted the role that amateurs play in assisting with professional discoveries in as...

Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice.

The crew of International Space Station Expedition 40/41, including NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, will participate in a NASA Television news conference and media interviews Tuesday, March 18, at the agency's Johnson Space...

A new enigma has been discovered about the early Universe: galaxies seem to come out of nowhere. Most of the galaxies that have been observed from the early days of the universe were young and actively forming stars. Now...