Space News

There is a long tradition of Christmas greetings from spacefarers soaring around the High Frontier and this year is no exception! The Expedition 42 crew currently serving aboard the International Space Station has decora...

While lights decorating Christmas trees twinkle indoors, the stars of the Christmas sky shine brightly during the last week of 2014.

NASA to offer commercial companies access to its technologies and resources to help develop space capabilities. Space agency has selected four U.S. firms for the program.

The MESSENGER spacecraft will soon run literally on fumes....

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite detected hundreds of fires burning in various countries in western Africa on December 23, 2014....

ViaSat Chief Executive Mark Dankberg discusses his company’s relative success in bringing in-flight broadband connectivity to commercial airline passengers with CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer Dec. 23. Dankberg also tou...

The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright star just above the cone is the tree topper and the very bright star at.....

The tropical low pressure area previously known as System 95S organized and strengthened into Tropical Cyclone Kate on Dec. 24 and the Cocos Keeling Islands are expected to feel its effects on Dec. 25 and 26. NASA-NOAA's...

While many of us here on Earth are opening presents and feasting on Christmas Day (Dec. 25), astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be having their own celebration high above the planet's surface.

During the darkest days of December, it makes me feel better to think about all the other, more profound darknesses out there in the universe. A little dose of the old perspective, you know. And boy, there are a lot of t...

City lights shine brighter during the holidays in the United States when compared with the rest of the year, as shown using a new analysis of daily data from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite....