Space News

NASA's ambitious plan to snag and asteroid and put it into orbit for astronauts to explore should help put astronauts on Mars sometime in the 2030s, space agency officials said today (April 29).

NAOJ Top News: A research team of scientists has discovered an indicator of when re-ionization of the primordial Universe began after its dark age.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: When Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launched NASA's third contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station April 18, an experiment designed by U...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A NASA spacecraft designed to make precise measurements of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final preparations for...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new NASA study finds that a major 2010 earthquake in northern Mexico triggered quiet, non-shaking motions on several Southern California faults.

The galaxy known as M87 has a fastball that would be the envy of any baseball pitcher. It has thrown an entire star cluster toward us at more than two million miles per hour. The newly discovered cluster, which astronome...

Well, damn. I was just informed that Bruce Woodgate died. Bruce was the principal investigator for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, or STIS, a camera that was placed on board the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997, ...

A gas giant orbiting a relatively nearby star rotates every eight hours, its spectrum reveals --

On Earth, we take for granted that a plant grows up and its roots grow down. In space, however, this seemingly predictable formula is upended. How do plants sense "up" and "down" where those relative positions don't exis...

NASA Breaking News: NASA announced Wednesday the selection of three U.S. companies to negotiate no-funds exchanged partnership agreements with the agency to advance lander capabilities that will enable delivery of payloa...

Four tiny canisters which arrived to the International Space Station April 20 are carrying scientific experiments that could lead to better prevention and treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, and make ...

The International Sun-Earth Explorer Cometary Explorer (ISEE-3 / ICE) - launched in 1978 - makes its closest approach to Earth in August 2014.

Striking a Buzz Lightyear-like pose above is the winning design for NASA’s Z-2 spacesuit prototype. The version, called “technology”, was by far the popular vote in an online contest the agency held to choose betwe...

Video released today by SpaceX confirms the landing legs deployed successfully on the Falcon 9′s first stage booster, paving the way for future vertical soft touchdowns on land. SpaceX's next-generation Falcon 9 rocket...

The private space company launched its Dragon capsule on a NASA cargo delivery run to Space Station on April 18th. The Falcon 9's first stage deployed it's landing gear and touched the water with essentially no velocity....

Research from an international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered for the first time that one of the most powerful events in our universe - Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) - behave differently th...

Observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, determined the rotation rate of an exoplanet. Beta Pictoris b has been found to have a day that lasts eight hours. This is quicker than any planet in...

For the first time an international team of astronomers has measured circular polarization in the bright flash of light from a dying star collapsing to a black hole, giving insight into an event that happened almost 11 b...

Between the time you got to work this morning and the time you leave today — assuming an eight-hour work cycle — an entire day will have passed on Beta Pictoris b, according to new measurements of the exoplanet. This...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted "Sun tornadoes" spinning super-heated plasma off the surface and into Space. Magnetic forces pulled and stretched the plasma for a day (April 29-30, 2014) before sending it on a cos...

A brown dwarf only about 3 to 10 times the mass of Jupiter couldn't get fusion going and now sits freezing in space, in the nearby galactic neighborhood. Clara Moskowitz reports.   --

The equator of Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant about 10 times more massive than Jupiter, is moving at about 62,000 mph (100,000 km/h), researchers said -- far faster than any planet in our solar system.