Space News

Did you hear the one about last month's 'supermoon?' Yeah, we know. The hype was actually for an event that was less than spectacular, as it revolved around the first New Moon of 2015 on January 20th. Said suspect Moon w...

"Deep-seafloor volcanism, which is sort of out of sight, out of mind, may have a long-term feedback into our whole climate system," says Maya Tolstoy, an associate professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbi...

The much-hyped James Webb Space Telescope promises to revolutionize exoplanet science, but only if astronomers can agree on how to use it. --

Anything can happen during a launch or landing of a crewed spacecraft, and just in case the crew would end up stranded in a remote area of the world, astronauts and cosmonauts undergo survival training and carry survival...

The unmanned space plane, called the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), is slated to blast off Wednesday at 8 a.m. EST from French Guiana. Its 100-minute suborbital flight is designed to test out re-entry technolog...

Two white dwarfs circle around one other, locked in a fatal tango. With an intimate orbit and a hefty combined mass, the pair is ultimately destined to collide, merge, and erupt in a titanic explosion: a Type Ia supernov...

ESA's tiny suborbital testbed vehicle could pave the way for later orbital space planes.

One of the most sensitive detectors in human history just got a $200+ million upgrade -- this week, join project scientists in a Reddit AMA.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has exceeded 40,000 trips around Mars and continues to study patterns of change on the Red Planet.

We live in a wild and crazy universe. Gigantic stars explode and create the stuff of life, virtual particles pop in and out of existence so fast they can barely be measured, and light exists as particles and waves at the...

A stunning video shows the destruction of a robotic cargo ship re-entering Earth's atmosphere in November after delivering supplies to the International Space Station.

NASA Breaking News: NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who spent 165 days living and working aboard the International Space Station, and gained a large following on social media while sharing the wonders of space exploration, ...

Counting sunspots over time helps in knowing the activity of our star but the two indices used by scientists disagree on dates prior to 1885. Now an international team of researchers has tried to standardise the historic...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Another large snowstorm affecting New England was dropping more snow on the region and breaking records on February 9, as NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured an image of the clouds ass...

First off: no, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is not about to explode or disintegrate. But as it steadily gets nearer to the Sun the comet’s jets are getting more and more active and they’re putting on quite a show ...

The active galaxy NGC 1275 lies at the center of the cluster of galaxies known as the Perseus Cluster....

NASA Breaking News: NASA and its International Space Station partners have announced the crew members, including NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, for three upcoming missions to the space st...

NASA Breaking News: The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) now is scheduled to launch at 6:05 p.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 10 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon ...

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Feb. 10 on a NASA authorization bill virtually identical to one the chamber overwhelmingly passed last year. The post House To Quickly Consider New NASA Authorizatio...

Doctor Who wins fan-voting contest for LEGO set.

Nos Aries, IXV's recovery ship, is now in the Pacific Ocean getting ready for this week's crucial ESA IXV mission. The ship and the team of mission engineers onboard will support IXV's short flight to test new European r...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This photo shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, at the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Statio...