Space News

The effects of climate change on Earth can be seen clearly in photos taken by satellites in space, and those images are vital tools in protecting our home planet, NASA chief Charles Bolden wrote today (May 6).

To close out their final week aboard the International Space Station, three of the six Expedition 39 crew members are completing their unloading tasks inside the docked commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter and other ...

The 1-ton Curiosity rover bored into a slab of Martian sandstone dubbed "Windjana" on Monday evening (May 5). Curiosity will use its scientific instruments to analyze the powder collected during this drilling operation i...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Anne Thompson describes her career as an adventure in various ozone layers, including meeting Paul Newman at the tropopause.

(Phys.org) --There's a four-letter word to describe conditions on Mars, and it's not pretty: Dust. It is everywhere and anywhere on Mars, and dust is a key component of Martian weather, says a Texas A&M University resear...

NASA Breaking News: Three crew members currently aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to end more than six months on the orbiting laboratory Tuesday, May 13 (U.S. time), and NASA Television will provide c...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The free afternoon for elementary school-aged children and their families is on May 18, 2014, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

A common criticism of science is its quick decision to experiment, without thinking about whether or not it should. While many argue that philosophical implications do not belong within the realm of science, others argue...

The first teaser poster for Christopher Nolan's space epic "Interstellar" launched online Tuesday (May 6), with the clock ticking down toward the film's November 7 premiere.

Today: Advanced Plant Experiments (APEX)-02-2: On Saturday, Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Swanson installed the first of ten APEX-02-2 microplates into the Plate Reader to start spectral analysis....

A Mars year's worth of Sun images from Opportunity demonstrates Mars' orbital motions as reflected in the changing apparent position of the Sun: the analemma.

Defense authorization legislation drafted by the leadership of the House Armed Services Committee directs the Pentagon to spend up to $300 million over six years on pilot projects to explore new ways to procure commercia...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected powder drilled from a rock on Mars on Monday, the third time this has ever been done and the first time on a sandstone target.

Two companies using 3D printing technology recently finished crafting simulators for key pieces of a satellite after two weeks and dozens of hours of work.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe--as much as a billion times more powerful than any man-made ele...

"Multiple lines of independent evidence confirm that human activities are the primary cause of the global warming of the past 50 years." -- From the overview of the National Climate Assessment The U.S. Global Change Rese...

A dive through data of 1774 planets in 1081 star systems. From planets whose orbits take hundreds or thousands of years, to those that take hours or days. Tom Hands (://.tomhands.com) created the animation. Original: ://...

A new meteor shower caused by Comet 209P/LINEAR may produce a dazzling show.

Harrison "Jack" Schmitt has already been to the moon and walked on its surface. But he is eager to see a rebirth of the zeal for United States human space exploration that boosted Schmitt and fellow astronaut, Eugene Cer...

The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of our position. A researcher from the University of Cádiz (Spa...

The Astronaut of Hall of Fame inducted two new members on May 3, during a ceremony that was the first to be held under the retired shuttle Atlantis. It was only coincidence that both inductees had made history while flyi...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., Thursday, May 8, to discuss findings in the Third National Climate Assessment, released Tuesday by the White House.