Space News

The space agency has been working with industry partners to develop a crew transport systems since 2010. The work from the past 4 years are highlighted.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: As the region's summer comes to a close, NASA is hard at work studying how rising temperatures are affecting the Arctic.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal ion thrusting after the thrusting unexpectedly stopped and the spacecraft entered safe mode on September 11.

NASA has tapped the private spaceflight companies SpaceX and Boeing to build and test commercial spacecraft for ferrying American astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

(Phys.org) --A planet may be causing the star it orbits to act much older than it actually is, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows how a massive planet can affect the behavio...

NASA is a giant step closer to launching Americans again from U.S. soil.

NASA awarded contracts worth $6.8 billion to Boeing and SpaceX to develop commercial crew transportation systems.

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream NASA will make a “major announcement” today on the return of human spaceflight launches for the U.S, specifically which commercial space company — or companies — will tax...

Over the past few decades, average global temperatures have been on the rise, and this warming is happening two to three times faster in the Arctic. As the region's summer comes to a close, NASA is hard at work studying....

Find out here at 4 p.m. EDT who NASA picks to haul astronauts to ISS.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's Global Hawk 872 aircraft flew over Hurricane Cristobal on August 28 and 29 and gathered data on the storm as it was becoming extra-tropical.

Who will be responsible for flying Americans to the International Space Station by 2017? Today, NASA could announce which private spaceflight company (or companies) officials have selected to move ahead toward developing...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: When the most massive stars explode as supernovas, they don't fade into the night, but sometimes glow ferociously with high-energy gamma rays.

As recently as this past May, Air Force officials had said SpaceX might have to wait until March 2015 to win certification.

Avanti Communications Group on Sept. 15 said it is resisting pricing pressure in Africa and maintaining average prices above $864,000 per year for a 36-megahertz transponder.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: An exoplanet about ten times Jupiter's mass located some 330 light years from Earth.

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Jake VanderPlas, a data scientist who worked on the Graphic Science illustration in the October issue of Scientific American magazine. --

Jeff Bezos and Tory Bruno will announce a strategic partnership between Blue Origin and ULA.

Over the past few decades, average global temperatures have been on the rise, and this warming is happening two to three times faster in the Arctic. As the region's summer comes to a close, NASA is hard at work studying ...

NASA will make a major announcement today at 4 p.m. EDT regarding the return of human spaceflight launches to the United States. The agency will make the announcement during a news conference from NASA's Kennedy Space Ce...

U.S. astronauts once again will travel to and from the International Space Station from the United States on American spacecraft under groundbreaking contracts NASA announced Tuesday. The agency unveiled its selection of...

A planet may be causing the star it orbits to act much older than it actually is, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows how a massive planet can affect the behavior of its pare...