Space News

A new category of space-based protected tactical communications passed an important test in April. Intelsat General participated in tests led by the U.S. Air Force that validated the protected tactical waveform (PTW) mod...

The many "faces" of Pluto are visible in new images by NASA's New Horizon's probe, which is only one month away from the first-ever close encounter with the dwarf planet.

NASA has successfully tested a new glider used for launching satellites that will significantly cut down on the costs and complexities involved with launching satellites using first stage booster rockets.

Six scientists who were living under a dome on the slopes of a dormant Hawaii volcano for eight months to simulate life on Mars have emerged from isolation.

The historic space probe has sent signals to Earth, ending seven months of silence --

On June 10, NASA's Terry Virts passed command of the International Space Station to Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency - marking the start of the Expedition 44 mission....

The European Space Agency said Sunday that its comet lander Philae has woken up from hibernation and managed to send data back to Earth for the first time in seven months. The probe went quiet on Nov. 15, three days afte...

The European space probe Philae woke up overnight after nearly seven months in hibernation as it hurtled towards the Sun on the back of a comet, mission control said Sunday.

A European probe that made a bouncy landing on a comet last year and then slipped into an silent hibernation is alive again and phoning home. The Philae comet lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko beamed its "alive" ...

Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko....

The German and European space agencies on June 14 said Europe's Philae lander, which has remained silent since mid-November after operating for nearly 60 hours on Comet 67P, reawakened and began sending fresh data for a ...

Astronomers have identified the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago. A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have d...

Fantastic news! Philae’s alive and kicking. The lander “spoke” with its team on ground via Rosetta for 85 seconds -- its first contact since going into hibernation in November. Signals were received at ESA’s Euro...

As the hit HBO series 'Game of Thrones' wraps up its fifth season tonight, remember that you can see Aiden Gillen (who plays the weaselly Littlefinger) in a science fiction short film about the European Space Agency's Ro...

I really need to stop being surprised by Thierry Legault. He's an astrophotographer who specializes in getting ridiculously difficult real-time events. He excels at capturing satellites transiting (crossing in front of) ...