Space News

The moon passed through Earth's shadow on Oct. 8, 2014, marking a total lunar eclipse, the second of 2014, in a stunning blood moon. See photos of the amazing lunar eclipse in this Space.com gallery.

This space wallpaper is an artist's concept of the silhouette of the extrasolar planet HAT-P-11b as it passes its parent star.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA engineers are bound and determined to destroy a perfectly good parachute this week during the latest test for the agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator proje...

Astronomers working with NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), led by Caltech's Fiona Harrison, have found a pulsating dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. The object, previously t...

The test flight, scheduled for December 2014, will examine NASA's new spacecraft by flying it farther than any humans have been since the Apollo missions. NASA engineer Kelly Smith takes explains the flight, step by step...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's GPM satellite was able to observe Hurricane Simon before its rapid intensification on Oct. 4.

The heart of at least one extremely bright X-ray source is a pulsing star rather than a black hole, a find that startled scientists.

A black hole that is eating a star faster than scientists had ever thought possible is unleashing unusually bright X-ray signals that may help scientists understand a group of weird, superbright objects in deep space.

Astronomers have found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar - a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion - ever recorded....

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: A source with unusual pulsations in the M82 galaxy about 11.4 million light years from Earth.

The gravity of a 'pulsing' neutron star pulls in material from surrounding accretion disk. In this animation, the material is drawn into 2 spots above and below the core and is superheated releasing x-rays.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times faster than previously thought possible. The black hole--known as P13--lies on the outskirts of the galaxy NGC7793 about 12 milli...

Highly-detailed radio-telescope images have pinpointed the locations where a stellar explosion called a nova emitted gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic waves. The discovery revealed a probable mechani...

August 15, 1977: the night before Elvis Presley died, at 11:16 p.m. an Ohio radio telescope -a rectangular structure, larger than three football feilds- called the Big Ear recorded a single pulse of radiation that seemed...

Virgin Galactic has finished yet another stepping-stone to its first commercial spaceflight. The New Mexico-based company sent SpaceShipTwo aloft on a test of the re-entry system Oct. 7, making a safe landing at the Moja...

SpaceShipTwo completed an unpowered "glide flight" from California's Mojave Air and Spaceport Tuesday. The vehicle rotated its tail and wings upward during the test, "feathering" them as it would to during the descent ph...

Space Center Houston is now a member of the Smithsonian's crew. Space Center Houston, which serves as the official visitor center for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, is officially the first museum in Houston to be ...

Based on projections of Kepler Mission exo-planet data, thousands of Earth-like, habitable planets should exist in other solar systems. With our ability to detect far-away planets getting better by the year, we're on the...

Did you see the eclipse last night? Pictures are rolling in on Twitter and Facebook, and they're lovely. But the night before, on Oct. 7, astrophotographer Steve Knight caught a different kind of eclipse: The Internation...

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Program for use of the center's Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) Bays 1 and 2 to process the X-37B...

Astronomers have found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar - a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion - ever recorded. The discovery w...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Program for use of the center's Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) Bays 1 and 2 to process the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicl...