Space News

The number of mainly Ka-band high-throughput satellites in orbit or in development far exceeds the likely demand and will pose problems for operators of traditional satellite trunking businesses.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., on the afternoon of Monday, March 17, for demonstrations of and briefings on select aeronautics and space research ...

A team of scientists will unveil what they bill as a 'major discovery' in the field of astrophysics on Monday (March 17) in a presentation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

(Phys.org) --NASA's preparing to send its fifth in a series of smartphone-controlled small spacecraft into orbit. PhoneSat 2.5 will ride into space as part of the SpaceX-3 commercial cargo resupply mission to the Interna...

Commercial launch service providers raised the possibility of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket becoming American, the international Sea Launch becoming Russian and the high-cost Japanese H-2A rocket becoming cost competitive.

Physicists have created a device that binds photons together to form "light molecules."

SES is threatening to cease future dealings with Arianespace unless SES's O3b Networks broadband satellites are given a spring launch slot also coveted by the European Commission for the commission's Galileo spacecraft.

How do scientists and engineers communicate with their spacecraft? All the robotic missions going to various points in our Solar System wouldn't be possible if not for the Deep Space Network. And now there’s a fun new ...

NASA and the National Geographic Channel is about to take one giant leap for cable kind tonight with 'Live From Space,' unprecedented TV event to share the wonder --and drama -- of space travel like never before.

On March 11, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was acquiring some images of Saturn’s back-lit limb when two of its moons decided to make an entrance. Like stage hands in a darkened theatre the moons quickly passed across the...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: To mark Pi Day, the informal holiday celebrating the mathematical constant 3.14, JPL's Education Office serves up an infographic with word problems featuring NASA space...

The National Geographic Channel TV show "Live from Space" isn't set to air until tonight (March 14), but you can start gearing up for the historic broadcast right now. The "Live from Space" website now features a live In...

It's that time of year again: my favorite annual space science meeting, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, takes place all next week in Houston, Texas. Get ready for reports on everything from Mercury to the Moo...

You would think by now we would have exhausted the mysteries of Albert Einstein. As perhaps the most famous scientist in history, nearly every idea he expressed and every thing he did has been studied, commented on, writ...

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

A stunning solar flare erupted from the sun Wednesday (March 12) and just narrowly missed becoming one of the strongest types of sun storms possible, NASA scientists say.

The first sighting of the light spectacle on another planet reveals properties of the mysterious Venusian clouds --

Water, salts and gases dissolved in the huge ocean that scientists believe could exist below Europa´s icy crust can rise to the surface generating the enigmatic geological formations associated to red-tinged materials t...

Got circles on the brain today? It's Pi Day — (3/14 for those of us on the west side of the pond) and a celebration of math and science - as well as the infinite and irrational! It is also Albert Einstein's birthday. W...

Swiss Space Systems is setting up a U.S. division to offer parabolic airplane rides from the Kennedy Space Center, the company announced March 14

Earlier this week, Earth-imaging satellite company DigitalGlobe announced it was activating its crowdsourcing platform on Tomnod to enlist civilians in the search for the lost Malaysian jetliner.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA has awarded the Flight Dynamics Support Services (FDSS) Bridge contract for engineering services to a.i. solutions Inc., Lanham, Md.