Space News

The UK Space Agency is holding a news conference Friday (Jan. 16) to provide an update on Beagle 2, which was supposed to touch down on Dec. 25, 2003, but is thought to have crashed.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the region around a star known as R Sculptoris, a red giant located 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sculptor. Recent observations have shown that the ...

The world's largest-ever digital camera has received the green light to move forward with development. The 3,200-megapixel camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will snap the widest, deepest and fastest v...

A NASA space telescope has spotted a colossal black hole chowing down on gas from a distant collision between two doomed galaxies.

NASA data shows that average sea ice totals have dropped significantly, with a precipitous fall between 2002 and 2008. Sea level rise is a direct result of sea ice loss.

An initial analysis of data from Orion's first test flight last month indicates that the spacecraft performed better than expected in many respects, although NASA officials confirmed that this success won't accelerate it...

The commercial aviation industry has medical care standards, as does NASA for traditional space missions, and the emerging commercial space transportation industry will need to define medical care practices as well. The ...

For the probe landing's 10th anniversary, a new sequence has been rendered from Huygens' Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) data. The craft landed on Saturn's largest moon on 14 Jan 2005.

A possible ammonia leak on the International Space Station triggered an evacuation of astronauts and cosmonauts to the Russian side of the orbiting outpost, but now, NASA flight controllers think it was likely a false al...

International Space Station program manager Mike Suffredini talks about how the astronauts responded to the ammonia leak alarm in the early morning hours of Jan. 14th, 2015.

Asteroids may be a byproduct of planet formation rather than planetary building blocks, according to a recent paper in Nature.

MIT: New study finds meteorites were byproducts of planetary formation, not building blocks. Meteors that have crashed to Earth have long been regarded as relics of the early solar system. These craggy chunks of metal an...

12 telescopes of the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) at the European Southern Observatory at Paranal, Chile have begun to measure stellar brightness over time to spot of Neptune-sized and smaller planets in orbit a...

Ten years ago today--Jan. 14, 2005--humanity reached out and touched another world. And it was a doozy. It was Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, still on its way to entering orbit around the ring...

A truly fascinating event may be in the offing this month. Picture two distant burning embers (candles, light bulbs, LEDs, what have you) circling each other in the distance. From our far-flung vantage point, the two poi...

Fortunately for scientists, there is a possible laboratory in our solar system to help us better understand the conditions on Earth before life arose -- a situation sometimes referred to as a "prebiotic" environment. Tha...

Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will announce the release of new data on 2014 global temperatures during a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Friday, Jan. 16.

NASA will host an opportunity for media to conduct in-person interviews with astronaut Scott Kelly and his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly, Monday, Jan. 19.

Orbiting the Earth 353 miles above the ground, the Hubble Space Telescope silently pivots toward its new target. At the same time, flying 93 million miles away in interplanetary space, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope rece...

On Jan. 26th, 2015, Asteroid 2004 BL86 will become the largest known space rock to fly this close to Earth (nearest approach = ~745,000 miles).

Today: SpaceX-5 Dragon Ingress and Cargo Ops: The crew started their day by opening the Dragon hatch, obtaining an air sample, and installing Inter-module Ventilation (IMV) ducting. They then began cargo operations by re...

The crew of the International Space Station evacuated to the station's Russian segment early Jan. 14 after an alarm indicated a potential ammonia leak in the U.S. segment, although NASA officials said there was no immedi...