Space News

SpaceX is hosting a worldwide live premiere event tonight, May 29, unmasking the veil from the company's commercial "Dragon V2" manned spaceship, the next step in US human spaceflight at 7 p.m. PST (10 p.m. EST, 0200 GMT...

The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions....

Drop whatever you're doing, make this full screen, turn up the volume, and prepare to collect your jaw off the floor: This is quite simply the clearest and most stunning time-lapse footage of growing supercell storm syst...

Two of the six instruments that will fly on NOAA's first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R (GOES-R) satellite have completed integration with the spacecraft. The Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) and Ex...

NASA's Morpheus lander ascended to more than 800 feet, flew forward and downward ~1300 feet and landed on May 28th, 2014. It also performed a 78-foot divert to simulate a hazard avoidance maneuver.

The 'Moon as Art' campaign is celebrating the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's 5 years on-orbit. The public is asked to vote from a selection of 5 images.

SETI Project listened for alien interplanetary radio signals, based on Kepler space telescope data.

NASA's Cloudsat mission flew over the storm on May 25th, 2014. It saw heavy to moderate precipitation below the freezing level.

(Phys.org) --Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from orbit before.

NASA astronauts are taking over New York City this week for the World Science Festival. Space agency scientists and engineers are giving presentations around New York from now until Sunday (June 1) on a variety of topics...

Leading scientists, artists and thinkers from around the world will convene here this week for the World Science Festival, and you can watch the talks live in a webcast.

Today: 39 Soyuz (39S) Launch/Dock: 39S launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2:57pm CDT today with Max Suraev, Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst onboard....

Britain argues that Iridium's current satellite constellation is not reliable enough to be certified as a maritime emergency communications provider.

NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will fly a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space next week from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Several event...

A San Jose State undergrad grieving the loss of his mother shifted his gaze to outer space and made what could prove to be a remarkable discovery: a system of stars so dense, his professor said, astronomy has no word for...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Two of six instruments for NOAA's first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R satellite have been installed on the spacecraft.

Here's the thing about going to the International Space Station: No one can predict what you'll need to do during your six-month stay there. Maybe something breaks and you need to go "outside" to fix it, in a spacesuit. ...

This stunning image of the Milky Way was taken from the Azores, an area with nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean near Portugal. See how veteran photographer Miguel Claro did it.

A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally - revealing clues about how water originated and was redistributed in the Moon......

I’m happy to announce that thanks to the hard work of more than 80,000 volunteers, we’ve recently completed classifying the infrared images of galaxies taken from the UKIDSS survey! There were more than 70,000 images...

The satellite fleet operator said multiple television channels were affected by the interference.

Titan — that smoggy, orangy moon circling Saturn — is of great interest to exobiologists because its chemistry could be good for life. It has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and methane and likely has lakes filled wit...