Space News

I'm a big fan of Stephen Colbert (duh), and of nerdiness in general. So I was pretty happy when Colbert flew his geek flag high and spent a whole segment talking about the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens tha...

With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has found an important new example of a very rare type of galaxy that may yield valuable insight on how galaxies developed in the early Universe. The new discove...

SpaceX expects to earn certification from the U.S. Air Force to launch national security missions by the end of the year, but will not meet an ambitious Dec. 1 deadline suggested by the service's top space officer.

Weather is looking reasonably good fro the planned unmanned test launch of NASA's newest space capsule Thursday. The spacecraft, called Orion, is designed to deliver humans to deep space destinations never visited before...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new NASA study concludes that stars aren't all that dusty -- a step forward to finding planets that might harbor life.

The member governments of ESA agreed to develop a new-generation Ariane 6 rocket to maintain Europe's share of the global commercial launch market, to enhance the power of the current Vega small-satellite launcher and fu...

NASA has a new state-of-the-art space capsule on the launch pad and a new high-tech countdown clock to go with it.

Today in New Delhi, officials of the government of India signed documents establishing the country as a full partner in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. An international collaboration of institutions in the USA,...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.

ESA Council at Ministerial Level

The Japanese space agency JAXA is scheduled to launch a very important mission tonight: The Hayabusa 2 space probe, set to visit the asteroid 1999 JU3. This is a very ambitious mission: It will land on the asteroid, coll...

Fortunato joins ATK after six years with Honeywell Aerospace, where he was most recently director of government relations.

In the afterglow of their successful Rosetta comet mission, ministers of the European Space Agency Council meeting in Luxembourg on Dec. 2nd, 2014 approved funding for a new 3-stage launcher.

Help astrophysicists georeference the position of cities which appear in images taken from the International Space Station (ISS) --

With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has found an important new example of a very rare type of galaxy that may yield valuable insight on how galaxies developed in the early universe. The new discove...

In China's Badain Jaran Desert, dozens of lakes mingle with the tallest sand dunes in the world....

European nations agreed Tuesday to build a new-generation rocket to maintain their lead in the market for satellite launches, ministers said.

Wow! One of the most famous star explosions captured by the Hubble Space Telescope — several times — shows clear evidence of expansion in this new animation. You can see here the Homunculus Nebula getting bigger and ...

NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The public is invited to a free talk called "Measuring our Underground Water Supplies from Space" at the Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, on Dec. 4 at 11:30 a.m. EDT.

With luck, skywatchers can catch sight of the five brightest planets in the sky this month. Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter should all be on display.

In 2013, huge active plumes containing water vapour being released from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa were discovered. This sensational find was made using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Europa has been a fo...