Space News

Elon Musk, CEO and founder of the upstart commercial launch venture SpaceX, announced at a press conference today, Friday, April 25, that SpaceX is filing suit against the Federal Government to protest and break the US A...

A massive east Asian dust storm is caught on satellite imagery on April 23, 2014. Dust storms are common in northern China and southern Mongolia during the late winter and spring, and pollution often affects Beijing and ...

From a massive solar flare to a super-bright meteor exploding over the northern Russian city of Murmansk, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for April 26, 2014.

Everyone's favorite furry aliens from Star Wars, the Ewoks, lived on the "forest moon of Endor". In scientific terms, the Ewok's home world would be referred to as an exomoon, or a moon that orbits any planet that orbits...

A new life form is taking root on the International Space Station, and its name is "Outregeous." The space-faring lettuce was delivered to the space station by a SpaceX Dragon capsule on April 20th....

The Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174) is a star-forming region in which bright, newborn stars near the center of the nebula illuminate the surrounding gas with energetic radiation....

NASA activities for the celebration of the 44th Earth Day included an event at Washington, DC's Union Station, featuring Hyperwall and Science Gallery exhibits highlighting the agency's Earth science work to understand a...

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

The 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse on Tuesday (April 29), will likely only be seen as a partial solar eclipse to observers. Here's why total solar eclipses dominate sun show attention.

After a few weeks of male-dominated story lines, Sunday's episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" will honor two women who changed the way scientists understand star stuff, with the help of actresses Kirsten Dunst and M...

SpaceX founder to sue for chance to compete for Pentagon satellite launches. Elon Musk says his company can save the government on launch costs.

The 1994 eclipse -- when a dragon ate the sun.

Science@NASA: A new life form is taking root on the International Space Station, and its name is "Outregeous." The space-faring lettuce was delivered to the space station by a SpaceX Dragon capsule on April 20th.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA research suggests ozone levels in Earth's troposphere probably won't be affected much by projected stronger circulating winds that transport ozone in our atmospher...

The unprecedented reusable rocket test launched by SpaceX last week paves the way for a potentially revolutionary leap forward in the cost of spaceflight, the private company's founder Elon Musk said today (April 25).