Space News

On 29 May 1919, a shadow dance took place over the Caribbean which was to make history: While the new moon covered the blazingly bright disk of the Sun, astronomers around Arthur Stanley Eddington measured the shift of s...

The House of Representatives passed a bill with a number of commercial space policy provisions May 21, despite objections from some Democratic members.

Most details about the space plane are classified, but the launch vehicle also carried 10 miniscule "cubesats," including the LightSail solar sail, developed by the Planetary Society --

NASA announced the selection of nine instruments it plans to fly on a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa May 26, but agency officials were vague about whether the instruments, or the overall mission, could meet an aggressi...

The Europa probe will carry supersharp cameras, a heat detector, ice-penetrating radar and a variety of other gear that will help researchers gauge the Jupiter moon's ability to support life as we know it.

In a major move forward on a long dreamed of mission to investigate the habitability of the subsurface ocean of Jupiter's mysterious moon Europa, top NASA officials announced today, Tuesday, May 26, the selection of nine...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 2015 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30. The ceremony will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Space S...

Science experiments done in microgravity or related to space flight can be found in a new scientific journal dedicated to these areas of research.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Supernovas just might be the maid service of the universe.

When companies try to "build a better mousetrap," the process can involve lots of internal studies and tests on the kinds of materials to use and effective designs. It can be a time-consuming but necessary operation, whi...

California Institute of Technology:

The International Space Station had worms. Roundworms to be exact, but those and several other samples, hardware and data are now returning aboard the completed sixth SpaceX contracted resupply mission. The Dragon spacec...

The plot of many a science fiction TV series or movie revolves around the premise that people traveling long distances in space age more slowly than their counterparts on Earth. Now, tiny worms who spent time aboard the ...

NASA has selected nine science instruments for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, to investigate whether the mysterious icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life.

Steven Clarke will take over as director of NASA's roughly $600 million heliophysics division effective June 1, the agency said. The post Clarke Succeeds Chenette as NASA Heliophysics Director appeared first on SpaceNews...

Today, American astronaut Sally Ride would have have been 64 years old. She died in 2012, but her work lives on as an inspiration to young women who want to touch the stars. Ride was indefatigable in promoting education,...

The chairman of small-satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) on May 26 said market enthusiasm for small satellites may have gone too far, with satellite development accelerating beyond sustainable busi...

In the 1980s, humanity got its first face-to-face view of a comet when a fleet of spacecraft was sent to visit Comet Halley, which was making its first pass into the inner solar system since 1910. We got never-before-see...

Astronomers studying the globular star clusters orbiting the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) have stumbled upon a fascinating discovery -- the clusters are too massive.

The Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) will be moved to a nearby port to create a spare docking port for United States commercial crew transport by SpaceX, Boeing and possibly others in the future.

On 24 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal - a nation woefully unprepared to respond to such an event. Dozens of aftershocks have rattled the country daily for the past month....