Space News

At the World Science Festival in New York, an interactive installation provides an auditory encounter with the NASA satellites that study the Earth.

A prototype of Google's Wi-Fi drones crash-landed about a month ago. It's a setback, but Google expects hurdles such as this, according to a spokesperson.

A giant eruption from the sun that scientists thought would hit Earth in 2014 missed because the sun's magnetic field channeled it away from the planet in an unexpected way, researchers say.

This satellite image over the Kimberley region of Australia captures the Saint George Basin along the country's northwestern coast....

Explosive geysers of material that shoot away from black holes at nearly the speed of light seem to form more often in galaxies that are the product of two galaxies merging together --

Astronomers worldwide are focusing on Pluto, in anticipation of a July 14 flyby of the dwarf planet by NASA's New Horizons probe  --

From a nebula's crimson heart to a dragon's-eye view, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 31, 2015.

This parachute testing for NASA's InSight mission to Mars was conducted inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, in February 2015....

"Intelligent life may be in it's 'very young'stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Be...

NASA announced May 26, it has selected nine science instruments for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to investigate whether the icy moon has conditions suitable for life....

The May 29 statement by Roscosmos on the May 16 Proton rocket failure confirmed initial suspicions of a third-stage engine issue but otherwise left many questions unanswered about the failure's origin. The post Russian S...

Before we knew what comets and asteroids looked like up close, it was popular (at least in media) to imagine them as roughly spherical, maybe a bit lumpy. The reality was way stranger. The first comet seen up close, Hall...

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a joint military organization of the United States and Canada that looks for threats in aerospace, patrols the skies for missiles and tracks the whereabouts of Santa Cl...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog.

Hercules, Boötes (Herdsman), and Draco (Dragon) constellations are highlights for sky gazers in June. Also, Venus and Jupiter are bright in the evening sky and Jupiter rings are viewable with binoculars in the southern...