Space News

(Phys.org)--Many black holes are believed to have surrounding accretion disks of matter trapped by gravity and spiraling toward the event horizon. Supercritical accretion disks (SCADs) are those with mass accretion rates...

Russia's space agency said Tuesday the next manned mission to the International Space Station would blast off between July 23 and 25, after it delayed the launch due to a rocket failure.

Several Human Research Program investigations are being conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's One-Year Mission (1YM) to learn more about how the human body responds to stress in a long-...

NASA Breaking News:

Twitter user Kevin Eicrhelberger scored what will probably go down as the find of his beach-combing career: the briny wreckage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The U.S. Air Force will use Lockheed Martin's standard satellite bus on the forthcoming fifth and sixth satellites of its Space Based Infrared System missile warning constellation as part of a much discussed "refresh" of...

The 100-foot-wide parachute unfurled well and apparently inflated fully, or nearly fully, Monday before being ruptured by the fast-rushing air during the second flight test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator pr...

The Planetary Society's LightSail test mission successfully completed its primary objective of deploying a solar sail in low-Earth orbit, mission managers said today....

Three crewmembers who have been aboard the International Space Station for an extended, 6.5-month mission will be heading home on Thursday, with no launch date set for their replacements.

Engineers are poring over the data following the second experimental landing technology test of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

On May 27th, 2015, the ISS Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) was relocated to make way for a space berthing port for U.S. cargo spacecraft. Cameras aboard the International Space Station captured an amazing view of the...

More often than not the outside observer may find that the European space program is a difficult to grasp if not entirely mystifying object. The mixture of national, intergovernmental and community-based entities and pro...

The U.S. Export-Import Bank insists it may yet recover part of its more than $100 million loss following the bankruptcy of customer NewSat Ltd. and NewSat's subsequent rejection of its satellite construction contract wit...

Large magnetic storms from the Sun, which affect technologies such as GPS and utility grids, could soon be predicted more than 24 hours in advance.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Last week I wrote about the supermassive black hole in the distant galaxy NGC 3862. It's blasting out a jet of matter, and Hubble has caught blobs in the jet colliding with each other. Here's that story in moving picture...

Sanford Underground Research Facility:

Over the last few years, several research groups have shown that, here on Earth, ancient biosignatures can be preserved in impact glass. One of those studies, led by Brown University geologist Peter Schultz and published...

Now available is the April 8, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Cesar Ocampo (Odyssey Space Research/NASA JSC) and Damon Landau (NASA JPL) who discussed "A Crewed Mars Explor...

Harris and exactEarth announced a partnership in which Harris will use exactEarth technology to mount ship-monitoring payloads on Iridium Next satellites. The post Harris, exactEarth To Place AIS Gear on Iridium Craft ap...

For centuries cartographers were fond of depicting monsters along the edges of their maps. Now, researchers have depicted a monstrous galaxy near the edge of the charted Universe with unprecedented detail using the Ataca...