Space News

Problem of space junk takes center stage as experts testify before a U.S. House committee. Catastrophic collisions are a real risk, lawmakers hear.

From a brilliant image of the Flame Nebula to magnetic 'fingerprints' of the Milky Way, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 10, 2014.

In this week's episode, "The Electric Boy", narrator Neil deGrasse Tyson, shows that without a magnetic field the rate of mutation amongst Earth's living organisms would increase significantly. New evidence for the exist...

IceBridge continued its field campaign with surveys of northern Greenland's ice, flights along paths measured by satellites and a line connecting several ice core drilling sites, and completed the season's last remaining...

Astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) recently found a surprise when studying some of the oldest star clusters in our galaxy....

Today: Direct Current Switching Unit (DCSU) 3A Trip: DCSU Channel 3A Remote Bus Isolator (RBI) 1 tripped open due to a negative current condition....

From over a thousand aspirants who dared take the challenge of the one-way trip to Mars in 2025, the pool is now trimmed down to 705, and 44 of them are Indians.

The third U.S. National Climate Assessment was released which took observations from NASA's fleet of satellites to help understand climate change in the United States....

Saturn will shine at its best since 2007 Saturday (May 10) as it reaches opposition, the opposite side of Earth from the sun. See how to watch the celestial event live online here.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Boeing expects to launch the first unmanned test flight of their commercial CST-100 manned 'space taxi' in "early 2017," said Chris Ferguson, commander of NASA's final shuttle flight in an ex...

With a temporary injunction barring United Launch Alliance from buying Russian-made engines for its Atlas 5 rocket now lifted, the case brought by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. challenging the U.S. Air Force's sol...

Of the roughly $5.3 billion approved for NOAA as part of a $52 billion Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, about $2 billion would go toward satellite and ground systems procurement.

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured rainfall and cloud height information about the powerful thunderstorms and severe weather that affected the Great Plains over May 8 and 9....