Space News

As the Milky Way now begins to set earlier in the evening here in the northern hemisphere, that doesn’t mean the photos of our night sky are any less stunning. This lovely shot for #TerrestrialTuesday by photographer J...

Astrophotographer Chris Bakley took this image from Cape May, New Jersey on Aug. 27, 2014.

NASA's Human Research Program will fund nine proposals for ground-based research that will help enable extended and safer human exploration of space by quantifying and, ultimately, reducing the risks posed by space radia...

An architect with an interest in spaceflight has drafted a design to relaunch the display of a Saturn V moon rocket in Houston. Brantley Hightower's idea for a glass-fronted building came after he visited the booster at ...

Heinrich has asked the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure the Pentagon's 2016 budget request includes funding for a rapid response military space development office the Air Force has tried without success to close for ...

Heinrich has asked the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure the Pentagon's 2016 budget request includes funding for a rapid response military space development office the Air Force has tried without success to close for ...

Amateur astronomer Victor Rogus talks about his experiences observing total lunar eclipses.

Sometimes the Nobel prize in physics requires a fair bit of decoding for the non-expert (such as last year's award for the theory behind the Higgs boson, or the award the year before "for ground-breaking experimental met...

That ‘amazing astro-shot that isn't’ is making the rounds of ‘ye ole web again. You know the one. "See an Amazing Image of an Eclipse... From SPACE!!!" screams the breathless headline, with the all-too-perfect imag...

With its adaptive optics and much larger aperture, the 'TMT' will deliver finer detail than the Hubble Space Telescope. Groundbreaking for the telescope occurred near the summit on Mauna Kea, Hawaii on October 7th, 2014.

JAXA and MHI launched the nation's next-generation Himawari-8 weather satellite.

A heavenly alignment will offer a view of a blood-red moon in Earth’s shadow --

Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do some maintenance and repair work during a more than six-hour spacewalk today (Oct. 7).

Record lows in sea ice have been recently recorded in the Arctic but ice around the opposite pole of the planet is on the rise. This is probably not due to climate stabilization:

NASA Breaking News: NASA's research in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) may soon provide a means for early detection and mitigation of fires in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a nearly 50,000-square-acre re...

NASA Breaking News: NASA has selected four partners to develop game changing technologies with the potential to increase the oxygen recovery rate aboard human spacecraft to at least 75 percent while achieving high reliab...

A total lunar eclipse, the second this year, will take place Wednesday and will be visible in much of North and South America and Asia, NASA said Tuesday.

It's clear that our view of the cosmos is highly constrained. 1n 1999, Astronomers focusing on a star at the center of the Milky Way, measured precisely how long it takes the sun to complete one orbit (a galactic year).....

NASA's newest Earth observing mission, the International Space Station-Rapid Scatterometer, or ISS-RapidScat, is collecting its first science data on ocean wind speeds and direction following its successful installation ...

The XMASS collaboration, led by Yoichiro Suzuki at the Kavli IPMU, has reported its latest results on the search for warm dark matter. Their results rule out the possibility that super-weakly interacting massive bosonic ...

Help scientists uncover the history of Giant Kelp forests around the globe --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: When a volcano erupts or a big wildfire flares up, physical scientist Peter Colarco helps predict where the plumes will travel.