Space News

Scientists have caught a glimpse of the processes that lead to the formation of solar flares and the associated space weather.

Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA's launch pads and multi-billion dollar complexes famous for training astronauts and launching historic missions to space, scientists said on Tuesday.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: It's now more or less official: element 117 will have a seat at the periodic table. Earlier this month an international team of scientists that included researchers from Lawrence Be...

Big Joe, a test rocket, had a successful yet failed test flight.

Even if cloudy skies or bright city lights hamper your ability to see a much-anticipated meteor shower this weekend, you can still listen to it on the radio. Meteors can reflect radio waves, which are best heard on the l...

NAOJ Top News: An international team of astronomers has revealed a complicated outflow structure in the binary UY Aurigae.

The multi-national efforts that go into research aboard the International Space Station show that working together can yield results with universal benefits. This is especially the case when talking about human health co...

The 1-ton Curiosity rover has finished its third-ever drilling operation and will soon resume the long drive toward the base of Mount Sharp, which has long been its ultimate destination, mission officials said.

"Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever," said I.J. Good, a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley...

As we anxiously await the arrival of a potentially rich new meteor shower this weekend, its parent comet, 209P/LINEAR, draws ever closer and brighter. Today it shines feebly at around magnitude +13.7 yet possesses a clas...

The Universe broke its rising 'fever' about 11 billion years ago. During these early years of the Universe's development, many extremely active galaxies were 'switching on' for the first time and heating their surroundin...

Twice a year, the Board of Directors of The Planetary Society gathers for a face-to-face meeting. Jennifer Vaughn reports on the meeting.

NASA Television will broadcast prelaunch activities for the next three crew members flying to the International Space Station, followed by extensive live coverage of their launch and docking to the orbital laboratory Wed...

The retired shuttle's new home, the California Science Center, has plans to display the orbiter in launch configuration, equipped with solid rocket boosters and external tank.

It’s amazing what astronomers can figure out from afar, and this now might include whether a star ate a few planets sometime during its history. Through looking at the predicted elements that make up a star, and any ch...

"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," according to Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "We are carbon-based life, and understand...

We humans are busy creatures when it comes to exploring the solar system. This new graphic (which updates one from four years ago) showcases all the planets we have visited in the past half-century. Both successful missi...

The rim surrounding Endeavour Crater on Mars recedes southward, then sweeps around to the east in a vista obtained by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity....

Human error likely led to the recent failure of a Proton-M rocket carrying Russia's most powerful telecommunications satellite.

The chemical signature of a Sun-like star changes when it consumes rocky material. Trey Mack, a graduate student in astronomy at Vanderbilt University has developed a system to sleuth such stellar gobblers.

The following are screenshots of data from the live receive session we did with our Ettus Research Software Defined Radio unit attached to the Arecibo antenna on 19 May....

The ice at the Earth's poles plays a critical role in our environment. It's the largest store of fresh water on the planet, and as it melts it affects ocean height, temperature, and circulation ... which in turn changes ...