Space News

NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission....

The animation depicts the distribution and movement of man-made objects orbiting Earth....

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in the final stages of training for her Futura mission

Orbital Sciences' unmanned Cygnus spacecraft is set to blast off atop an Antares rocket at 6:22 pm EDT from a NASA facility in Virginia --

Radio JOVE students and citizen scientists observe and analyze natural radio emissions of Jupiter, the Sun and the galaxy --

NASA Breaking News: Ahead of the third U.S. commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station by Orbital Sciences Corp., NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia continues to enable successful launches fro...

Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Susan Mashiko used a government-furnished car and driver as a "personal limousine service" during her tenure as deputy director of the NRO, according to a report by the Pentagon's Office ...

The Hubble Space Telescope treats astronomers to gorgeous close-up views of the eerie outer planets. But it's a bit of a trick when it seems like the planet's looking back at you! In this view, the shadow of the Jovian m...

An international team of astronomers under the guidance of graduate student Leah Morabito of Leiden Observatory has for the first time discovered the largest carbon atoms outside our Milky Way with the LOFAR radio telesc...

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and the actor that plays him in a new movie set for release next week are both promoting real-life space science in a series of new videos.

Halloween is just around the corner. And in what appears to be an act of cosmic convergence, Hubble captured a spooky image of Jupiter staring back at us with a cyclops eye! While this is merely a convenient illusion cau...

Professor Hawking explains the need for space exploration....

NAOJ Top News: A team of astronomers revisited a distant gravitationally-lensed quasar with the Subaru Telescope and concluded that the images indeed present a 3-D view of the structure around a quasar. They were able to...

A space-flown camera that has connections to two Mercury astronauts is heading for the auction block. The Hasselblad 500C camera includes components that were used aboard the fifth and sixth U.S. manned spaceflights by W...

SpaceX is expected to begin a series of review boards with the U.S. government's chief engineer the week of Oct. 27 as it enters the "final phase" of its quest to earn the Air Force certification necessary to launch nati...

Investigations on the International Space Station are not only helping astronauts live and work in space, but also are perfecting valuable tools and technologies that may help us at home and as humans travel to new desti...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: LRO has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden called the Space Station from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. He asked NASA astronauts Reid Weismen and Butch Wilmore what they would like to see NASA accomplish in the futu...

The Chinese lunar test mission Chang’e 5T1 has sent back some amazing and unique views of the Moon’s far side, with the Earth joining in for a cameo in the image above. According to the crew at UnmannedSpaceflight.co...

Hubble treats astronomers to gorgeous close-up views of the eerie outer planets. But it's a bit of a trick when it seems like the planet's looking back at you!...

An international team of astronomers under the guidance of graduate student Leah Morabito of Leiden Observatory has for the first time discovered the largest carbon atoms outside our Milky Way with the LOFAR radio telesc...

ESO Top News: Today Professor Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, signed an agreement that will lead to the country joining the European Southern Observatory (ESO) -- the world's...