Space News

Images of a proposed faster-than-light ship with a 'Star Trek' look have become an Internet sensation. The design was created in collaboration with NASA scientists.

Test of saucer-shaped reentry vehicle for Mars missions is postponed because of weather, NASA says. Device may someday put astronauts on the surface of Mars.

Three X-class flares erupted from the left side of the sun June 10-11, 2014. These images are from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and show light in a blend of two ultraviolet wavelengths: 171 and 131 angstroms. The fo...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: An unusually large ring of material has been spotted in a tangled nest of developing stars.

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) will collect hundreds of thousands of measurements each day as it flies over Earth.

The space agency was forced to scrub six launch attempts of the Mars landing technology over the past two weeks as a result of unusually poor wind conditions at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range in Kauai, Hawaii.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere is in final preparations for a July 1 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...

On February 24, 2009, the launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission -- designed to study the global fate of carbon dioxide -- resulted in failure. Shortly after launch, the rocket nose didn't separate as ex...

Commercial space race frontrunner SpaceX brought its new manned Dragon capsule to the Washington, D.C. this week to showcase the futuristic spaceship.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Through a project dubbed SURFS UP, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope are catching sight of a "wave" of galaxies that emerged in the early universe. Starlight from t...

The Dream Chaser space plane will see some more airtime later this year. Representatives of Sierra Nevada Corp., the company developing Dream Chaser, are planning to launch the space shuttle-like vehicle to space in Nove...

A series of trials at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama has verified that the 3D printer developed by California-based startup Made in Space meets all the requirements for use aboard the orbiting lab, offici...

Red dwarfs comprise about 80 percent of the stars in the Universe, but their habitable zone--the distance from a star where liquid water may pool on the surface of the planet--is far more hostile than scientists have hop...

MultiChoice has agreed to make much of its lease payment in advance of the satellite's launch -- between $75 million and $100 million between 2014 and 2016.

  On June 8, the 370-meter (about 1,300-ft.) asteroid 2014 HQ124 breezed by Earth at a distance of just 800,000 miles (1.3 million km). Only hours after closest approach, astronomers used a pair of radio telescopes to p...

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has a bone to pick with the NRC report advocating a stepping-stone path to human missions to Mars.

Senate and House appropriators now seem to be more or less on the same page when it comes to the weather agency's 2015 budget, even if they do not agree fully with the White House -- or each other -- on every detail.

The UK government has launched a public consultation on the future of leap seconds. This has potential impacts on several areas of astronomy and geophysics. Leap seconds are used to keep clocks in time with the Sun. The ...

An international team of astronomers including Dutch astronomers Peter Barthel and Léon Koopmans (University of Groningen) reports the discovery of a unique case of a cosmic gravitational lens....

World Cup soccer excitement has launched into space. Three astronauts in orbit are getting into the World Cup spirit on the International Space Station.

The twin Pléiades satellites of Airbus Defence and Space captured images of the 12 stadiums in cities across Brazil that will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: