Space News

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The tornado and severe thunderstorm outbreak now pummeling the U.S. South is captured in a new infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite.

NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite that shows the development and movement of the weather system that spawned tornadoes affecting seven central and ...

Shat was honored for his "outstanding generosity and dedication to inspiring new generations of explorers around the world" --

This week’s Virtual Star Party was a special 2-hour Saturday night version recorded as part of the Cosmoquest Hangoutathon. The Star Party at this link starts at 1 hour in – we’ll get an edited version up soon! (.....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: After weekend inspection of a Martian rock under consideration as the next drilling target for NASA's Curiosity Mars, the rover team plans to go ahead with the next ste...

The bill sets NASA up for a slightly larger budget increase than the White House requested and maintains congressional spending priorities on big accounts including the SLS and Orion.

Today: Urine Collection: Commander (CDR) Wakata collected urine for his Return-15 day session for the Cardio Ox and Biochemical Profiles investigations....

SpaceX has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to bar the Air Force from buying 22 first-stage rocket cores on a sole-source basis from ULA.

'Star Wars' annouced its cast for the 2015 restart of the sci-fi series featuring original cast members Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.

Searchable copy of the complaint SpaceX filed April 28, 2014 with the U.S. Court of Claims challenging the U.S. Air Force's plan to award national security launch contracts to United Launch Alliance on a sole-source basi...

The space agency outlines their goal to eventually land a human on the Red Planet. There is yet no specific plan or mission design.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Scientists have discovered a young galaxy acting in unexpectedly mature ways.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A new app helps farmers on the ground in Niger or Mali take advantage of NASA's wealth of satellite rainfall data.

Our stellar neighborhood just got a little busier … and a little colder. A brown dwarf that’s as frosty as the Earth's North Pole has been discovered lurking incredibly close to our Solar System. Astronomer Keven Luh...

While astronomers are trying to figure out which planets they find are habitable, there are a range of things to consider. How close are they to their parent star? What are their atmospheres made of? And once those answe...

An unofficial sustained American aviation altitude record for women was set on July 1, 1979.

In July 2012, the NASA's Stereo-A spacecraft was impacted by the storm and its sensors revealed one of the most powerful solar storms in recorded history. Worst Solar Storms In History: ://goo.gl/RRJtMy

NASA's space shuttle-carrying jumbo jet is on the move. Two years after its final orbiter ferry flights, NASA 905, the space agency's original Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, set off on a two night road trip to Space Center Ho...

The space agency announced Monday (April 28) that it has issued a Request for Information (RFI), officially seeking ideas from outside researchers about a mission that would study Europa and its subsurface ocean for less...

Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, currently aboard the International Space Station, will make space-to-Earth musical connections with students in Texas this week to share an...

ESA's PROBA-2 sun observatory captured the eclipse on April 29th, 2014. Its sun-synchronous orbit allowed the spacecraft to see the eclipse (partial eclipse seen from Australia) 4X from different positions.

Get an inside look at NASA's next steps in deep space exploration -- from the space station, to an asteroid and on to the human exploration of Mars....