Space News

The Boldlygo Institute (non-governmental, non profit organization) has proposed a mission that would fly about 24 miles above the surface of the Red Planet and collect particles from seasonal Martian dust storms.

Researchers are ready to send NASA a last-ditch proposal to save the 11-year-old spacecraft.

Lockheed Martin will build the U.S. Air Force's next-generation space surveillance system.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in May 2014.

The space agency updates the public on the progress of the first unmanned test flight of the Orion Multi-purpose crew vehicle. Still slated to launch in December 2014.

The Air Force said it "plans to shut down its organic processing capability and utilize commercial payload processing facilities."

Engineers have just installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on NASA's Orion spacecraft -- the agency's newest spaceship designed to take astronauts to deep space destinations

Google aims to invest billions in a fleet of satellites to provide service to areas presently without broadband Internet access.

A new supercomputer simulation of how galaxies grow may have illuminated the mysterious lack of matter around the cores of galaxies.

Asteroids of various sizes whiz past our planet all the time. Some we know about, but many we don’t, and new ones are identified on an almost weekly basis. (In fact one such recently-discovered asteroid named 2014 HQ21...

The best science -- the questions that capture and compel any human being -- is enshrouded in mystery. Here's an example: scientists expect that matter and antimatter were created in equal quantities shortly after the Bi...

Humans should go to Mars to explore, and also as a form of insurance in case disaster strikes on Earth, the aerospace company's president, Gwynne Shotwell, told a small crowd here today (June 4) at the Atlantic Council C...

A new analysis of lunar rocks now supports the idea that the moon was born in a gigantic collision between the nascent Earth and a mysterious planet-size rock, scientists say.

A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around 4.5 billion years ago. This wor...

A plasma filament stretching about half the Sun's length 'danced' above the its surface for nearly 4 days before being sucked onto the surface, igniting a bright eruption, whose image was captured by NASA spacecraft.

Today: Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE)-M-2 Sample Start: Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Wiseman configured the Light Microscopy Module (LMM) in the Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR) and inserted the second sample for an ACE-M-2 in...

Mars, that ever-changing and beautiful Red Planet practically next door to us, is one of the most well-studied places humans have in the universe. We’ve sent spacecraft there for about 50 years. Yet there’s still a l...

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Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: New research published today by researchers from CERN has brought us a step closer to understanding where all the antimatter has gone. This matter-antima...

NASA has selected 12 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims to turn science fiction into fact through pioneering technology development.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure of an unpiloted Russian cargo vehicle from the International Space Station (ISS) beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, June 9.

NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers have installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on the crew module of the agency's Orion spacecraft. The work marks a major milestone on the path toward the spacecraft's first l...