Space News

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

On Wednesday (Oct. 28), NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zoom just 30 miles (50 kilometers) above Enceladus' surface, flying through and sampling the plume of material that erupts from the satellite's south polar region.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Using a new process in planetary formation modeling, where planets grow from tiny bodies called "pebbles," Southwest Research Institute scientists can explain why Mars is so much smaller than Earth. This same process als...

A company developing a balloon system to carry people and experiments to the edge of space completed a key flight test Oct. 24. SpaceNews.com

On Oct. 28th, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zoom past in excess of 19,000 mph, sampling the water plume emanating from its south pole. The instrumentation will be looking for signs of habitability on the icy world...

Can you name that tune -- from space? Tim Peake, a British astronaut, will challenge his Twitter followers to do just that while he's on the space station. Those who reply first with the correct title will win patches fl...

SETI Institute:

When Clayton Anderson began to write about his 30-year NASA career, he was warned that astronaut memoirs are "a dime a dozen, and all the same."

Arianespace Press Releases:

The Sun and moon's disruptive presence appears to have kicked WT1190F onto a path that will lead the piece of space debris to self-destruct in the Earth's atmosphere --

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the second in a series of four maneuvers propelling it toward an encounter with the ancient Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, a billion miles farther from the sun than Pluto.

Millions of bits of space junk--leftover fragments from spacecraft and related debris--orbit Earth, and the majority of these will eventually fall into Earth's atmosphere and incinerate. Astronomers believe they have rec...

New Horizons:

NASA is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate university students to fly their science and technology experiments to the edge of space on a scientific balloon mission.

Once upon a time, when NASA's shuttles were still flying, an astronaut read a children's story from space.

A new image from the New Horizons spacecraft finally completes the entire Pluto family portrait, showing Pluto's smallest (known) moon, Kerberos. And surprise! It's double-lobed! That's actually only mildly surprising; a...

New Horizons:

This 3D animation depicts the activities spacewalkers Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will perform Oct. 28. The duo will service the Canadarm2 robotic arm, route cables for a future docking port and place a thermal cover ...

Congress should act now to reopen Ex-Im's doors and stop undermining one of our most dynamic industrial sectors. SpaceNews.com

An international team of astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has been scouring cosmic images of X-ray emission, hunting for elusive clues that reveal the culprit responsible for violent a...

Astronomers detected 21 different complex organic molecules streaming from Lovejoy during its anticipated close approach to the sun this past January --