Space News

European company Airbus has unveiled its plan to develop rocket engines that fly back to a runway and a reusable "space tug" upper stage -- reusability concepts that mirror those being developed by SpaceX and United Laun...

NASA scientists working toward putting people on Mars said Tuesday a supersonic parachute they are developing to slow a vehicle's approach to the Red Planet partially deployed in a test, but immediately ripped apart.

Samantha Cristoforetti: The elegant beauty of our solar panels. Still fascinated by the elegant beauty of our solar panels. #OurOutpostInSpace...

Mapping our Milky Way galaxy is a mind-bending challenge, but a new view of our galactic home is helping refine that map by charting more than 400 clusters where new stars are born.

LightSail, whose mission is funded by members and supporters of the Planetary Society, overcame two separate glitches before unfurling its solar sail on Sunday. A photo captured by the cubesat confirmed the successful de...

The French government on June 10 confirmed that the Arianespace launch-service consortium ultimately would be controlled by Airbus Safran Launchers following the sale of the French government's share in Arianespace. The ...

The legacy of Leonard Nimoy has reached the Final Frontier: on June 2, a 6-mile-wide asteroid was named 4864 Nimoy in his honor.

Don’t get me wrong. I love this new photo. Dawn snapped it from its second mapping orbit from 2,700 miles up on June 6. The number of craters and the detail visible in the parallel troughs snaking through the scene are...

Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration News:

Today at 10:27 a.m. Central time during the routine testing of communications systems between the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft and the International Space Station (ISS), Soyuz thrusters activated inadvertently which led to a...

Saturn's giant newfound ring is even larger than previously thought, spanning an area of sky nearly 7,000 times larger than Saturn itself, researchers say.

A spending bill approved by a Senate appropriations subcommittee June 10 would provide $18.3 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2016, a cut of more than $200 million from both the administration's original request and a com...

NASA will have to wait until next summer to see if the third time's the charm for an experimental Mars landing system whose supersonic parachute tore away soon after it deployed from a saucer-shaped test vehicle travelin...

New images of dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the cratered surface of this mysterious world in sharper detail than ever before. These are among the first snapshots from Dawn's second mapping orb...

Although the Universe may seem spacious most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters and a neighbour is never far away. But this galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, shown here at...

A baffling new mystery has turned up on Mercury -- a pattern of giant cliffs and ridges on the planet's surface that defies any explanation that scientists have currently been able to offer.

"Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality." Hermann Minkowski, a German mathematician best known...

The Dawn spacecraft has now dropped down closer to the asteroid Ceres, starting its second surveying mission, and taking its highest resolution images of the world yet. The details are as lovely as they are baffling. Daw...

Average distances between galaxies are relatively much smaller than average distances between individual stars. Not so galaxy NGC 6503, which is on its own in a region known as the Local Void, about 17 million light year...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Technology image of the week: this aluminium plate was ripped inwards by a single sand grain-sized fleck of aluminium oxide

Now available is the April 15, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Jeff Kahn (JHU) who discussed "Thinking Through the Ethics of Health Risks and Long Duration Space Flight"....