Space News

For the first time, Space Center Houston is offering a look inside its space shuttle Independence.

One of the four Galileo satellites stopped transmitting on two of its three channels May 27 because of a sudden loss of power, forcing ground teams to shut down the satellite after putting it in safe mode while examining...

A mistake led to this stunning image of the crescent Moon and the Tower of Pisa this week. Astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca from Italy had in mind a certain shot he wanted to take of the crescent Moon on June 29. “S...

Got clear skies this July 4th weekend? The Moon passes some interesting cosmic environs in the coming days, offering up some photogenic pairings worldwide and a spectacular trio of occultations for those well placed obse...

NASA and Boeing signed a six-and-a-half-year, $2.8 billion SLS Stages Contract that runs through 2021 and calls for the company to deliver two SLS cores, including hydrogen and oxygen tanks, and avionics.

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING): A team of international astronomers has created a detailed three-dimensional map of the dusty structure of the Milky Way as seen from Earth's northern hemisphere. This extinction m...

Northrop Grumman and Boeing say they have responded to a U.S. Air Force call for contractors interested in building the service's next batch of GPS position, navigation and timing satellites.

An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation. The ISEE-3 probe performed the maneuver to prep for a larger trajectory correction nex...

Arianespace Press Releases: RUAG Space announced today that it has won a major payload fairing contract from Arianespace. Signed today in Zurich by Stéphane Israël, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Holger Wentscher...

Watching the 'heartbeat' of young stars could help researchers more precisely determine the stars' ages, a new study says, which in turn would help astronomers better understand how stars are born and age.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Comet Pan-STARRS poses with a spiral galaxy in new snapshots from NASA's NEOWISE mission.

3000 light-years from us a cold 'terrestrial' world, about 2x Earth's mass, orbits one of a pair of stars which, in turn, orbit one another.

What astronomers thought were a pair of potentially life-friendly alien worlds are illusions, apparitions conjured up by a star's intense magnetic activity, a new study suggests.

Turns out that two candidate planets thought to reside in the habitable zone of red dwarf star Gliese 581 are not planets at all. New research by astronomers at Penn State University finds that the signals were just magn...

An international team of researchers have been monitoring the "heartbeats" of baby stars to test theories of how the Sun was born 4.5 billion years ago.

A newly discovered planet in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth is expanding astronomers' notions of where Earth-like--and even potentially habitable--planets can form, and how to find them.

Mysteries about controversial signals coming from a dwarf star considered to be a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life now have been solved in research led by scientists at Penn State University. The scie...

An all-volunteer team managed to activate the propulsion system on NASA's ISEE-3 , setting the stage for a down-to-the-wire attempt to return the vagabond spacecraft to Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1.

Ruag Space will supply payload fairings for the Ariane 5 through 2019 under a contract valued at more than 100 million Swiss francs.

The NOAA GOES 13 Satellite captured the storm from July 2-3, 2014. It has been declared a category-1 storm and its gaining strength. (video looped)

Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles. In a paper published this week in the jour...

To find a nearby exoplanet similar to Earth is the hope and the challenge. Even for Gliese 832c - a possible super-Earth only 16 light years away - discovering how comparable it is to our home planet is super-tricky. At ...