Space News

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The first of two NASA Electra radios that will fly aboard the European Space Agency's next mission to Mars has been delivered for installation onto the ESA ExoMars Trac...

It may seem impossible that water could flow on the frigid surface of Mars, but a new study in a simulated Red Planet environment shows that a type of salt there may melt the ice it touches.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as Earth's Dead Sea.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: "Fireworks" in a nearby galaxy are driving away its star-making fuel.

The first storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is easily visible from space. International Space Station astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this picture of the storm, saying, "Just flew over Tropical Storm Arthur - hoping ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: A spiral galaxy, also known as M106, about 23 million light years from Earth.

Powerful radio signals that Jupiter generates could be used to help researchers scan its giant moons for oceans that could be home to extraterrestrial life, according to a recent study submitted to the journal Icarus.

While “dark materials” may leave some of us thinking about a certain Philip Pullman book series, on the asteroid Vesta its presence belies something equally exotic: old smaller asteroid impacts on its surface. (...)R...

Today: Circadian Rhythms: FE-6 Gerst donned the Circadian Rhythms hardware to start a 36 hour data take. The main objective of the experiment is to get a better basic understanding of any alterations in circadian rhythms...

Inmarsat booked one firm launch and two options aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket scheduled to make its inaugural flight in 2015.

Following a nearly three-year long hiatus, the workhorse Delta II rocket successfully launched NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to watching Earth breathe by studying Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) – the lead...

Pretty darn big, I’d say. The illustration above shows the relative scale of the comet that ESA’s Rosetta and Philae spacecraft will explore “up-close and personal” later this year. And while it’s one thing to ...

In chambers that mimic Mars' conditions, University of Michigan researchers have shown how small amounts of liquid water could form on the planet despite its below-freezing temperatures.

The Higgs boson is a cornerstone of the Standard Model, a theory developed in the early 1970s to explain the five percent of the Universe composed of visible matter and energy, all carried by fundamental particles. Now, ...

Hydra, the sea serpent; Virgo, the maiden; and Ursa Major, the big bear can all be seen in the night sky right now. Hydra lies mainly in the southwestern part of the sky.

Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth's Dead Sea.

NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2:56 a.m. PDT (5:56 a.m. EDT) Wednesday.

The head of Airbus' space division said his company was forced to come up with an Ariane 6 rocket design that competed with the version approved by the European and French space agencies because the agency version ultima...

This bright spiral galaxy is known as NGC 2441, located in the northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). However, NGC 2441 is not the only subject of this new Hubble image; the galaxy contains an intriguing...

New research explores cold dark matter in depth and proposes new answers about the formation of galaxies and the structure of the Universe. The proposed theory can be used to suggest that all the galaxies should have at ...

A volunteer team attempting to bring NASA's ISEE-3 into orbit at Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1 tried -- and failed -- to restart the old heliophysics observatory's two thrusters July 1.

With input from more than 2,000 members of the public, team members on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn have chosen a name for the final phase of the mission: the Cassini Grand Finale....