Space News

NASA and the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) are studying the effects of how fluids shift to the upper body in space and how this adaptation to space flight affects changes in vision. This research will help prepare for...

It's already an exciting time for Australia in the field of astronomy and space science. But we've just received an astronomical boost with the announcement of CSIRO's role with the Breakthrough Prize Foundation's (BPF) ...

Searching for life on exoplanets can be a challenge if the planet is covered in clouds -- but a new technique could identify cloudy planets before astronomers spend precious telescope time studying them.

The U.S. Air Force's DMSP-F13 satellite blew apart on Feb. 3, spawning a new cloud of space junk. Early indications pointed to a problem with the satellite's power system, and those suspicions have now been borne out by ...

It's back, it's updated, and it's making great progress - all on the International Space Station (ISS).

Composite image of tropical cyclone Halola in the Pacific, captured at 09:00 UTC on Monday, 20 July 2015....

A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto's Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain....

Members of NASA's New Horizons team will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, to reveal new images and discuss latest science results from the spacecraft's historic July 14 flight through the Pluto system...

Claudia Alexander, a beloved NASA project scientist who spearheaded NASA's side of the comet-exploring Rosetta mission and Galileo mission investigating Jupiter, has died at age 56.

As NASA once put, space is no trip to the spa. Changes in skin occur during spaceflight. According to recent reports, scientists have found that skin of astronauts who spend a lot of time in space gets thinner.

The Medigus Ltd's micro ScoutCam™ 1.2 is the borescope camera on NASA's Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot (VIPIR) tool.

New photos captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic Pluto flyby last week reveal intriguing new details about Nix and Hydra, two of the dwarf planet's five satellites.

Hydra and Nix were snapped from a distance of ~600,000 kilometers on July 13th and again on July 14th at a distance of 231,000 kilometers (Hydra) and 165,000 kilometers (Nix).

While Pluto's largest moon Charon has grabbed most of the lunar spotlight, two of Pluto's smaller and lesser-known satellites are starting to come into focus via new images from the New Horizons spacecraft....

A July 14 hearing revealed House Democrats and Republicans are split on the long-term viability of using commercially collected satellite data in U.S. weather forecasting models, despite the recent passage of a bipartisa...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova.

Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova....

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Container for storing snow samples at the remotest base in the world

Oh, that planet of ours. On Feb. 11, 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched with the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, on board. The sat was slowly eased into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers (just under a mill...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is looking for a multi-talented self-starter to be our Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer. This is a temporary position, to cover the incumbent postholder while she takes mater...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: