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A new lightweight material that heals itself when punctured could help spacecraft survive run-ins with debris. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

When the next pair of Galileo satellites is boosted into orbit next Friday, a team of mission control experts in Darmstadt, Germany, will spring into action, working around the clock to bring the duo through their critic...

The new line of "Star Wars" toys was revealed today (Sept. 4), aka Force Friday, and we're already picking out our favorites. Here are five of the new toys we love.

The dramatic reveal of the new "Star Wars" toys at the Toys R Us in Times Square on Sept. 4th, 2015.

Researchers from the University of Washington are awaiting the launch an over 50-foot-long rocket from a launch site in Norway into the upper reaches of the atmosphere to observe and measure a puzzling phenomenon.

The first Dane in space arrived on Friday at the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a three-man team after an unusually long voyage from Earth, the Russian space agency said.

In the history of Hollywood envisioning the future of space exploration, few, if any films have come as close to NASA's own goals at the time of the movie's release as Ridley Scott's "The Martian." The 20th Century Fox f...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Boeing has renamed the CST-100 spacecraft it is developing for NASA's commercial crew program the CST-100 Starliner, the comp...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Two high-priority Defense Department initiatives to more closely monitor and manage space activity -- the Joint Space Operati...

Boeing already has the Dreamliner. Now it also has the Starliner.

If you live in the eastern-third of the United States or southeast Canada and your local skies are clear on tonight (Sept. 4), take a good close look at the rising moon, which has a celestial date with a star this evenin...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. While no final decisions will be made until a Nov. 2-27 meeting of global governments at the World Radiocommunication Confere...

Should life truly exist on an exoplanet, detecting nitrogen as well as oxygen could help astronomers verify the oxygen's biological origin by ruling out certain ways oxygen can be produced abiotically, or through means o...

According to a recent report by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airports across the country are seeing record passenger numbers. Along with that comes congestion at airport terminals and runways, causing de...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. A company that has it roots in a Romanian venture that competed for the Ansari X Prize more than a decade ago plans to carry ...

In a survey of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images of 2,753 young, blue star clusters in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31), astronomers have found that M31 and our own galaxy have a similar percentage of newborn st...

This spectacular time-lapse video depicts a composite day in the life of Europe's largest space centre

Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new, highly accurate method of measuring the distances between stars, which could be used to measure the size of the galaxy, enabling greater understanding of...

After launching in their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 2, Kazakh time, Expedition 45 Soyuz Commander Sergey Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and visiti...

Last week, we put up Episode 30 of Crash Course Astronomy, and after every [episode modulo 10 = 0] episodes we post a blooper reel, outtakes from the last few episodes we've recorded. So here you go, Outtakes No. 3, whic...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....