Space News

Farewell Cygnus! The flight of the Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus commercial cargo carrier concluded this morning, Sunday Aug. 17, in a spectacular fireball as planned upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere. And the fireworks ...

The University of Waterloo has unveiled a new satellite image of Antarctica, and the imagery will help scientists all over the world gain new insight into the effects of climate change....

Famed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin may have walked on the moon, but the folks behind Jockey underwear think they could have helped him conquer the galaxy.

NASA Breaking News: Astronomers have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare type of black hole 12 million light-years away by sifting through archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite.

SpaceX and Tesla's CEO responded to the challenge put forth by Bill Gates. Find out more about the challenge that has already raised over 10 million dollars for ALS research: ://.alsa.org/fight-als/ice-bucket-challenge.h...

“Bangkok is the bright city. The green lights outside the city? No idea...” This was the description accompanying the photo above, perplexingly Tweeted by Expedition 40/41 astronaut Reid Wiseman on Aug. 18, 2014. And...

The 1-ton Curiosity rover had been heading for Mount Sharp via Hidden Valley, a sandy swale that's about the length of a football field. But Curiosity turned back shortly after entering the valley, finding the sand surpr...

Super massive black holes can spiral around and even out of their host galaxies after gobbling stars or smaller black holes. This surprising finding spun out of Astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna's supercomputer, built from hu...

An astronaut and cosmonaut on the International Space Station captured some spectacular views of a private spaceship meeting it fiery end above Earth's surface Sunday (Aug. 17).

What’s the chance of that thump you just heard in your house was a meteorite hitting your roof? That was the case for one family in Novato, California during a fireball event that took place in the north bay area near ...

Russia's new Angara rocket family is the country's first post-Soviet era booster to be developed. See photos of the Angara rocket's development, test flights and future.

New forensic data gathered by NASA telescopes reveal clues about what caused the supernova that suddenly appeared in the nearby Messier 82 galaxy earlier this year.

'Super-Earth' Kepler 93 b is a rocky world about 3.8 times Earth's mass, Sarah Ballard's team determined, by integrating the parent star's light curve with its 'asteroseismic' signature. Full Story: ://goo.gl/Y9ue2f

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, launching this winter, will provide global measurements of water in soil.

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project has awarded approximately $15 million in a new, five-year cooperative agreement to Texas State University at San Marcos to provide educator pr...

The singer-songwriter tweeted with astronaut Reid Wiseman during a visit to the Space Center in Florida. He was there to promote his new song, "American Flag on the Moon".

A Russian cosmonaut threw a tiny satellite into the vacuum of space during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station today (Aug. 18).

On Aug. 15, with its successful first season behind it, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration began its second year of mapping the southern sky in unprecedented detail. Using the Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel ...

See photos of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev throwing the Peru-built Chasqui 1 satellite from the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2014.

There is nothing like a head cold to make us feel a little dazed. We get things like colds and the flu because of changes in our immune system. Researchers have a good idea what causes immune system changes on Earth--thi...

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project has awarded approximately $15 million in a new, five-year cooperative agreement to Texas State University at San Marcos to provide educator professional developme...

NASA has signed a contract modification with Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, for a one-year option with a potential value of $120 million to extend the Engineering and Science Services and Skills Augmenta...