Space News

A number of prominent scientists have signed on to a letter warning that autonomous weapons should be banned.

The fatal breakup and crash of Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo space plane last year was caused by a co-pilot error, as well as the failure of the spacecraft's builders to anticipate such a catastrophic mistake, fed...

Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only object in the Solar System other than Earth known to have liquid on its surface. While most of the lakes are found around the poles, the dry regions near the equator contain signs of eva...

Europe's ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have crossed the Atlantic, touching down in French Guiana ahead of their joint launch this September.

It took almost a decade for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to navigate its way across the solar system. Was it worth the wait?

With all the news about Pluto this month, most skywatchers may not be aware that Ceres, the brightest and nearest of the dwarf planets, reached its opposition to the sun on Saturday (July 25).

California Institute of Technology:

In order to begin addressing looming problem of human-created orbital debris, the Swiss Clean Space One project is developing a satellite to capture a test Cubesat.

NASA has awarded contracts to 13 companies to provide advanced propulsion and communications system technologies as part of ongoing long-term aerospace research activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Clevela...

The accident that destroyed the SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle and killed one its pilots last year was caused by the co-pilot's premature unlocking of the vehicle's feathering system and inability of its developer, Scal...

It is no easy task to capture the shadow of Pluto as it travels across the surface of Earth at more than 53,000 mph--but that is exactly what NASA scientists and flight crew did on the night of June 29,...

The NTSB has released its findings into the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo last October.

The pilots hired to fly SpaceShipTwo have extensive flight and spaceflight experience.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

In October 2014 NASA delivered high-definition, 3-D footage of astronauts living and working on the International Space Station to the Internet, posting video of astronauts exploring water tension in microgravity. The sa...

NASA has selected Wyle Laboratories Inc., of El Segundo, California, to provide biomedical, medical and health services in support of all human spaceflight programs at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The wo...

The NTSB has released video showing several angles of the doomed SpaceShipTwo flight, from initial separation from the White Knight carrier aircraft to the moment when the 'feather' was manually unlocked, too early in th...

I recently wrote about the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler-452b. It's bigger than Earth, but it orbits its Sunlike star in the habitable zone, where water could ostensibly exist on the planet's surface. The planet is a...

An asteroid packed with about $5 trillion worth of platinum zoomed past Earth on Sunday (July 19). Asteroid 2011 UW158 missed Earth by about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers), researchers said.

NASA's Dawn probe compiled topographic data from images taken at different times and Sun-angles. Colors represent elevations - starting 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) below the average surface (purple) to 3.7 miles (6 kilomete...

Ceres’ topography is revealed in full (but false) color in a new map created from elevation data gathered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, now nearly five months in orbit around the dwarf planet orbiting the Sun within the...

Mobile satellite communications services provider SpeedCast International on July 28 said it is purchasing SAIT Communications of Greece and Cyprus, a maritime communications provider with a 2,500-ship customer base. The...