Space News

The scars inflicted during the Curiosity rover mission's 2012 landing faded steadily for about two years, but the pace slackened thereafter, and some appear even to be darkening again, researchers said.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, one of the most geologically interesting objects in the solar system --

Engineers subjected the saucer-shaped Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle, which is part of a project designed to help get heavy payloads down safely on Mars, to a "spin table" test at NASA's Jet Propu...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission has passed a crucial milestone, moving from the design and development phase to the spacecraft-building stage, agency officials announced Monday (March 31).

A much-needed ground segment modernization for NASA's space communications network is up to two years behind schedule and could exceed its budget by more than 30 percent, well above the 15 percent trigger for congression...

A new program will search for hard-to-spot gravitational waves by looking at how they distort the signals of fast-spinning millisecond pulsars.

Many, perhaps most, stars in the Universe live their lives with companions by their sides - in so-called binary systems. Until recently, however, the ancient RR Lyrae stars appeared, for mysterious reasons, to live their...

Material falling onto a growing gas giant's core may provide the push needed to keep the planet from spiraling into its star. The discovery could solve the 30-year mystery of how distant gas giants, such as Jupiter, surv...

The orbiting Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Constellation quantifies precipitation across the entire Earth. Data 'swaths' from 10 satellites overlay to form NASA's animated Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals f...

A privately built spacecraft shaped like a space shuttle could land at a conventional airport, according to its builder, the Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Photographer Michael Soluri was granted unprecedented access to document the people and events behind the final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, STS-125, which launched in 2009. He has published these images i...

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from Kennedy Space Center into low Earth orbit. Hubble was the first telescope designed to operate in space, so it was able to avoid interference from Earth’s ...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday April 3, to explain and answer questions about the shortest lunar eclipse of the century.

On Tuesday, in the western Pacific Ocean, the tropical cyclone Maysak strengthened rapidly and became what is called a Super Typhon, with sustained winds of more than 250 kilometers per hour, the equivalent of a Category...

Arianespace Press Releases:

Typhoon Maysak strengthened into a super typhoon on March 31, reaching Category 5 hurricane status on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale....

By combining observations of the distant Universe made with ESA's Herschel and Planck space observatories, cosmologists have discovered what could be the precursors of the vast clusters of galaxies that we see today. Gal...

In the 2015 Space Apps Challenge (April 10-12), engineers, artists, entrepreneurs and others collaborate to find solutions to world challenges. NASA astronaut Cady Coleman explains.

Now available is the March 18, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Matthew Johnson (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition) who discussed "Coactive Design: Designing f...

Careening toward the sun, Jupiter cleared the way for Earth to form—with help from Saturn, too --

As China presses ahead with a series of robotic lunar missions, its plans to begin a Mars exploration program could be delayed, a leading Chinese space scientist said March 31. The post China's Mars Exploration Program F...

(Phys.org)--NASA live-streamed a balance test conducted on the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) spacecraft yesterday (after a two hour delay) to ensure the 15 foot diameter flying saucer-looking craft will be ba...