Space News

From the moon occulting Saturn to the earthgrazer meteor, don't miss these spectacular objects to watch in the night sky.

From two neutron stars merging to Jupiter's shrinking spot, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 17, 2014.

Why haven't we discovered signs of life beyond Earth? As Carl Sagan said, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This thought is well known in other fields of research. Astrophysicists, for example, spent de...

A replacement Global Positioning System spacecraft for the world's best-known satellite constellation ascended into orbit Friday night aboard a Delta 4 rocket in a spectacular sendoff at sunset.

A new GPS satellite launched to space atop a Delta 4 rocket from Florida on May 16, 2014.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's LDSD project, a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle, has completed final assembly at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.

The next episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" airs Sunday (May 18), and it promises to delve into big questions about death and immortality.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft came out of a three-year hibernation period this winter and is set to attempt a soft-landing on 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November --

Saturn is a gift. It's not like our solar system would be boring without it, but with it we do get some amazing stuff. Like, for example, this: This picture, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Christmas Day 2013, shows t...

A Delta 4 rocket has lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA precision manufacturing and a NASA volleyball-sized robotic satellite equipped with a smartphone will be featured during the first Solid Conference in San Francisco, Ma...

April launches bring May research returns. While the splashdown of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft on May 18 will conclude the company's third contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station, it also serves as ...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA TV will provide live coverage of the departure of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station May 18, 2014. After leaving the space station, the c...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Boeing expects to begin "assembly operations of our commercial CST-100 manned capsule soon at the Kennedy Space Center," Chris Ferguson, commander of NASA's final shuttle flight and now direc...