Space News

(Phys.org)--As NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in early December. These are the first in a serie...

Apollo astronaut, orbital mechanic, and futurist Dr. Buzz Aldrin explains his unique ideas for human exploration and settlement of Mars in this freewheeling conversation with Space.com.

Scientists plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a surprise finding that could change the way we understand supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system.

SpaceX confirmed Jan. 20 that Google is taking a stake in the Hawthorne, California, firm, joining Fidelity in a $1 billion financing round. The post SpaceX Confirms Google Investment appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

After European ministers finalized plans for future launch vehicles in 2014, CNES plans to focus in 2015 on climate science in advance of a major climate change conference in Paris late in the year. The post French Space...

A new study shows that organic compounds carried in icy bodies can survive high-speed impacts and transfer to a target.

When astrobiologists contemplate life on nearby planets or moons, they often suggest such life would be simple. Instead of there being some kind of multicellular organism on, say, Jupiter's moon Europa, scientists instea...

NASA Breaking News: NASA will join the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) Wednesday, Jan. 21 for its third annual State of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (SoSTEM) event. The event ...

The NISTAR instrument that will fly aboard NOAA's space weather-observing spacecraft called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), is going to measure the Earth's radiation budget.

We Earthlings love to dream, conjure and extrapolate. If you pose a question such as, “What if Earth had Saturn’s rings?” with all the resources available these days someone will not only answer the question but cr...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured amazing new images of the dwarf planet Ceres ahead of the probe's March 6 arrival at the giant space rockk. See the images here.

SBIRS will be among the first programs subjected to an acquisition reform initiative that will help find favorable trade-offs between cost and capability.

Imagine if you were standing on Mars, beside the Opportunity rover, high on the summit of Cape Tribulation. You don't have to leave too much to the imagination, thanks to imaging enthusiast Stu Atkinson. He's put togethe...

Brett Lambert, who as acquisition adviser at the Pentagon led a study saying the U.S. solid rocket motor must downsize following the space shuttle's retirement, is joining Northrop Grumman Corp. as vice president of corp...

On Jan. 10, 2015, astrophotographer Jerry Lodriguss took what may be my favorite picture of the bright Comet Lovejoy I've seen so far. Check this out: This is a very wide-field shot showing the constellation of Orion on ...

There's a big white spot on Ceres and we don't know what it is. We've known about the white spot since the Hubble Space Telescope first captured images of it in 2003 and 2004, and in subsequent images taken by Hubble, th...

Airbus Defence and Space said its space division's success in 2014 will allow the company to spare about 600 jobs that had been scheduled to disappear as part of a drive for savings in the search for higher operating mar...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun on Jan. 19, 2015. The dark areas at the bottom and the top of the imag...

Thinking small has enabled an international team of scientists to gain new insight into the evolution of planetary building blocks in the early solar system....

Elon Musk says SpaceX has filed paperwork for a global satellite Internet project to eventually include some 4,000 satellites and service within 5 years.

Play the skywatching game long enough, and anything can happen. Well, nearly anything. One of the more unique clockwork events in our solar system occurs this weekend, when shadows cast by three of Jupiter's moons can be...

Scientists plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a surprise finding that could change the way we understand supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system. They have analysed extraterrestrial dust thought t...