Space News

Although it is arguable as to whether plants have all five human senses sight, scent, hearing, taste and touch they do have a unique sense of gravity, which is being tested in space....

Skywatchers around the world can look forward to spotting bright planets throughout April; observers just need to know where to look.

(Phys.org)--A new model developed by a team of researchers with member affiliations in Argentina, France and Mexico, depicts a possible scenario to explain why gas giants do not migrate into the star they are orbiting du...

The awards set up NASA partnerships with 10 aerospace companies and one public university to develop tech in three different areas: advanced electric propulsion, human habitation and small satellites.

The astronauts living and working on the International Space Station are eye to eye with a deadly super typhoon as it heads toward the Philippines.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Using archival data from the Japan-led Suzaku X-ray satellite, astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf star that blew up thousands of years ago. The measurement strongly suggests the explosion...

A few years ago, Patricia Tribe was cooking spaghetti and contemplating a tough question: How do you keep science in schools while still making enough time for literacy?

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded.

Gemini Observatory :

The Planetary Society -- a nongovernmental space advocacy organization -- has announced its support of a plan to send humans into orbit around Mars' moon Phobos by 2033 and to the surface of the Red Planet by 2039.

Start your clocks. If the Planetary Society gets its wish, humans will be lifting off for the Red Planet eighteen years from now. That’s the conclusion of 70 experts in various fields relating to human spaceflight conv...

The Pentagon and NOAA are still developing a plan to obtain weather satellite coverage of the Middle East and Afghanistan but will not rely on Chinese or Russian satellites. The post Pentagon Says It Will Not Rely on Rus...

Measuring the future value of radio spectrum is difficult. When the spectrum is not auctioned, but allocated by regulatory ruling, value assessment is even tougher. One measure is corporate attendance at ITU meetings. Th...

A pair of images of a young star, made 18 years apart, has revealed a dramatic difference that is providing astronomers with a unique, "real-time" look at how massive stars develop in the earliest stages of their formati...

International radio-frequency regulators agreed to address satellite-based global commercial aircraft tracking when they meet at WRC-15 to allocate spectrum that will also decide whether frequencies currently reserved fo...

Hey BABloggees! On Thursday, April 9, 2015, I will be in Washington, D.C., to moderate a panel of experts talking about living and working in deep space: specifically what life will be like on a trip to Mars. The panel i...

NASA has established a public-private partnership with five organizations to advance knowledge about composite materials that could improve the performance of future aircraft.

You're not seeing double; these are two images of the same world: icy, cratered Rhea, the second-largest natural satellite of Saturn.

(Phys.org)--A pair of space scientists, one with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas the other with Washington University in St. Lois, has found evidence of a large bulge on Ganymede--the largest satellite...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a set of enigmatic quasar ghosts--ethereal green objects which mark the graves of these objects that flickered to life and then faded. The eight unusual looped structures or...

Now available is the April 1 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Adam Rusek (NASA SRL/Brookhaven) who discussed "An Overview of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory"....