Space News

See stunning photos of the night sky and sun as seen by stargazers around the world in this Space.com photo gallery for June 2014 made up of images sent in by Space.com readers.

The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which aims to land four settlers on the Red Planet in 2025, announced today (June 2) that it has signed a deal with Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) to film its astronaut select...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering s...

The contract is a pillar of the Air Force's space surveillance plans as top leaders repeatedly talk about space becoming congested, contested and competitive.

Google is continuing its push into the skies. The company reportedly will spend more than $1 billion to launch satellites to deliver Internet service to underserved areas on Earth.

Robert Cardillo will take the reins of the NGA beginning in October, succeeding, Letitia Long, who is retiring.

See what's up in the night sky for June 2014, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has planet formation theorists challenged to explain how such a world could have fo...

Can you imagine a world that is 17 times as massive as Earth, but still rocky? Or two planets that are doomed to be swallowed up by their parent star in just a blink of astronomical time? While these scenarios sound like...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

In a Q&A biographer Lynn Sherr explains the public and personal sides of the notoriously private Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, which she chronicles in a new book --

At the end of his first year in office, President Obama made a bold promise: the United States would cut its greenhouse gas emissions substantially by 2020. Unfortunately it was a risky pledge that hinged on Congress. Af...

The Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, or HIAD, is rigorously tested in NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. This technology is being developed to deliver larger payloads to planets more efficiently.

In our solar system, planets come in two basic types: rocky and gas giant. Now, scientists have identified a third class of exoplanets called 'gas dwarfs' that serve as the missing link between the two.

Scientists have discovered the 'Godzilla of Earths,' a giant alien planet that is a new type of huge and rocky, world located 560 light-years from Earth.

Sunset on Tatooine? Nah, just an unusual combination of a dazzling orange sunset, clouds and a sun pillar that creates an “echo” effect of the setting Sun. As seen by astrophotographer Dave Walker in the UK on May 31...

The Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered aircraft designed for extended flights, completed its first flight-test on June 2, 2014. The ultimate goal is to fly the plane around the world in 2015.

Today: Resist Tubule Lamp Replacement: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Gerst replaced the failed Xenon lamp today that is used for JAXA's Resist Tubule experiment....

An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn's star, one of the oldest stars found near the Sun. One of the newly-discovered plane...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the mos...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: The planets of our solar system come in two basic flavors, like vanilla and chocolate ice cream. We have small, rocky terrestrials like Earth and Mars, and large gas giants li...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Two worlds orbiting a distant star are about to become a snack of cosmic proportions. Astronomers announced today that the planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c will be swallowed ...