Space News

China launched a Long March 2D rocket Sept. 4, 2014, carrying a data relay satellite and a payload to conduct multimedia telecommunications experiments.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa may have active tectonic plates similar to those that shape the Earth, which had long been thought unique in this respect, scientists said Sunday.

What was your favorite space news story of the last week?

Precipitation information from the first six months of the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory mission now is fully available to the public....

A small asteroid, designated 2014 RC, will safely pass very close to the Earth on Sunday, 7 September 2014....

Loral Space and Communications and its former satellite manufacturing division, Space Systems/Loral (SSL), have agreed to pay satellite broadband provider ViaSat Inc. $100 million, plus interest, over the next 2.5 years ...

Today -- Sunday, Sep. 7, 2014 -- at about 18:00 UTC, a small asteroid named 2014 RC will harmlessly pass by the Earth, though at the close distance of very roughly 40,000 km. I wrote all about it a couple of days ago.....

The full Harvest Moon will light up the night sky on Monday (Sept. 8), and this year it comes with a an extra bounty. September's full moon will cap a trio of back-to-back 'supermoons' for the Northern Hemisphere summer.

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket, in its second commercial flight in a month, on Sept. 7 successfully placed the AsiaSat-6/Thaicom-7 telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit.

Noel Hinners, a former chief scientist for NASA who helped plan the scientific exploration of the moon for the Apollo program and later oversaw projects such as the Mars Surveyor Program, has died.