Space News

NEW JERSEY – Record breaking snow from the 'Blizzard of 2015' hit vast regions of the US Northeast today, Jan. 27, 2015, stretching from Long Island to New England. NASA and NOAA Earth orbiting satellites are keeping t...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), planned to be launched in August 2017 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets. ...

Neither the New York Times nor the Secret Service identified the drone pilot by name or revealed what he does at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. An NGA spokesman told the Times that the man was off duty at t...

Space Station crew member Terry Virts (NASA) snapped imagery of the storm that slammed the Northeast United States during a night pass on Jan. 28th, 2015. The ISS was orbiting at an attitude of 260 miles during the fly-o...

Loss of Port Thermal Radiator (PTR) Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM): This morning, there was a loss of the PTR MDM. This MDM controls and provides insight to the Radiator Beam Valve Module (RBVM) system on External Therm...

Can documentary films actually change the way people think about a topic? Films like "The Thin Blue Line," "The Triumph of Will," and "Harlan County USA" are definitely documentaries that swayed both local public opinion...

Two phenomena known to inhibit the potential habitability of planets--tidal forces and vigorous stellar activity--might instead help chances for life on certain planets orbiting low-mass stars, University of Washington a...

Scientists who use high-altitude scientific balloons have high hopes for their instruments in the future. Although the floating behemoths that carry their instruments far into the stratosphere can stay aloft for days on ...

In the original 1961 comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the team acquires their powers after being exposed to cosmic rays during a mission in space. In this reboot (in theaters July 2015) they enter pods, which appear to ...

SpaceX released a cool new animation today, Jan. 27, showing an updated look at their Falcon Heavy rocket and plans for booster recovery. See below.

The interaction of solar winds and Earth's atmosphere produces northern lights, or auroras, that dance across the night sky and mesmerize the casual observer. However, to scientists this interaction is more than a light ...

NASA astronaut Terry Virts, a member of the current Expedition 42 crew aboard the International Space Station, captured several dramatic photos of the monster winter storm Tuesday night, as it wheeled and churned over Ne...

Geologists from Brown University have found new evidence that glacier-like ice deposits advanced and retreated multiple times in the midlatitude regions of Mars in the relatively recent past.

Got a smartphone and a telescope? It's a sight now common at many star parties. Frequently, you see folks roaming through the darkness, illuminated smartphone aimed skyward. Certainly, the wealth of free planetarium apps...

Carnegie Institution for Science: Washington, D.C.-- Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of li...

Skilled mathematician and passionate painter Ed Belbruno - whose worldview and life experiences differ from what is typically expected of a scientist - is profiled in the new documentary, "Painting the Way to the Moon."

A telescope peers into the blackness of deep space. Suddenly – a brilliant flash of light appears that wasn’t there before. What could it be? A supernova? Two massively dense stars fusing together? Perhaps a gamma ra...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw ...

The two hemispheres of Mars are more different from any other planet in our solar system. Non-volcanic, flat lowlands characterise the northern hemisphere, while highlands punctuated by countless volcanoes extend across ...

An amazing new video from SpaceX shows the spaceflight company's incredible plans for a reusable mega-rocket.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on the moon? What about Mars, or Venus or Mercury? We sure have and that's why we decided to find out what it might be like to live on other worlds in our solar system...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on Mercury. So did we. Mercury's gravity, temperatures and weather are all very different from Earth's. Here's how.