Space News

A pro golfer hit a hole-in-one in a European tournament, earning him a ticket on a commercial suborbital spaceflight.

NASA officials unveiled a huge new tool that will help them build the space agency's next mega rocket.

An Indian spacecraft is on course to reach Mars, an official said Monday, following a 666-million-kilometre voyage that could see New Delhi's low-cost space programme win Asia's race to the Red Planet.

Back-to-back eruptions on the sun sparked a geomagnetic storm last week, which generated dazzling auroras over the northern latitudes.

The U.S. Air Force and NASA have ironed out problems that prevented scientists from obtaining a steady stream of military tracking data on meteor explosions within Earth's atmosphere. The result could help researchers sa...

Celestial sleuthing and art historical detective work could reveal when the Impressionist master Claude Monet painted his landmark work, "Impression, Sunrise" or "Impression, Soleil Levant" showing the hazy harbor of Le ...

The US space agency's program to detect and protect the Earth from incoming asteroids is poorly managed and far behind schedule, said a government audit report on Monday.

Andy Sullivan won a free ride aboard XCOR Aerospace's Lynx rocket plane after acing the par-3 15th hole Sunday (Sept. 14) during the final round of the KLM Open in the Netherlands.

NASA Breaking News: NASA has awarded a sole source contract modification to Exelis, Inc., Geospatial Systems, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Instrument for flight on the Joint Polar S...

Where ever we find water on Earth we find life. And so, it makes sense to search throughout the Solar System to find water. Well, here’s the crazy thing. We’re finding water just about everywhere in the Solar System....

See amazing photos of the northern lights from early September 2014 sparked by two intense solar storms on Sept. 8 and 10. Amateur astronomers captured these stunning northern lights views.

A robotic probe set to be released in November by the Rosetta spacecraft will land on the "head" of a comet said to be shaped like a rubber ducky --

A robotic probe set to be released in November by the Rosetta spacecraft will land on the "head" of a comet said to be shaped like a rubber ducky --

The private spaceflight company SpaceX is planning to launch their fourth official unmanned resupply mission to the International Space Station this week.

Today: Energy: Wiseman and Gerst continued with Day 10 of the Energy investigation. Gerst continued taking urine samples and eating a special diet for the Energy investigation....

Have you ever wondered what is in the RAS apartments at Burlington House? On Saturday 20 September 2014 we will be opening our doors to the public so they can look around this magnificent building. The RAS entrance hall,...

An astronaut-led, private spaceflight training group, has launched a crowd-funded contest to redefine the 'right stuff' by awarding trips to space in return for the impact those who go can make to the world.

"If the Sun were less intense, Mercury would be within the habitable zone, and therefore life would have to adapt to strange light cycles," said Sarah Brown, an astrobiologist at the United Kingdom Center for Astrobiolog...

Mangalyaan is set to enter into orbit around Mars Sept. 24.

Mangalyaan is set to enter into orbit around Mars Sept. 24.

NASA has selected 20 students from across the nation to receive the agency's Aeronautics Scholarship for the 2014-2015 school year.

NASA has awarded a sole source contract modification to Exelis, Inc., Geospatial Systems, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Instrument for flight on the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (J...