Space News

Asteroid 2015 TB145 isn't the only cosmic visitor paying our planet a trick-or-treat visit over the coming week. With any luck, the Northern Taurid meteor shower may put on a fine once a decade show heading into early No...

It's like something out of an interplanetary chess game. Astrophysicists at the University of Toronto have found that a close encounter with Jupiter about four billion years ago may have resulted in another planet's ejec...

(Phys.org)--In 1990, an important space probe was launched, tasked with the ambitious mission of orbiting the sun and scanning our star at all latitudes. However, the much-publicized mission was not solar research but th...

NASA and the folks on the New Horizons spacecraft team just released a photo of Pluto, and I can say without fear of exaggeration that it is the most stunning shot of the tiny world yet. Ready? Are. You. KIDDING. ME? Thi...

For scientists now studying the voluminous amounts of data collected daily by NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, speed is everything. A new NASA-developed data-transmission technology installed at the U....

This Halloween, beware of things that lurk in the dark...ness of space! Here's a list of our favorite spooky space movies.

A new line of science-themed cruises lets passengers stargaze from the open ocean, a unique location far away from city lights.

In the recent sci-fi hit, The Martian, the main character, astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon), manages to grow potatoes on the planet with a mix of ingenuity, science, and a bit of Hollywood make-believe. Could...

A team of astronomers is proposing that huge spiral patterns seen around some newborn stars, merely a few million years old (about one percent our sun's age), may be evidence for the presence of giant unseen planets. Thi...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The latest slip for Iridium's second-generation constellation was caused by a component that had posed issues for prime contractor Thales Alenia Space previously. SpaceNews.com

"There are still naysayers out there regarding Voyager 1 crossing through the heliopause--the edge of the heliosphere," says astrophysicist Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space ...

Observations led by astronomers at the University of Leeds have shown for the first time that a massive star, 25 times the mass of the Sun, is forming in a similar way to low-mass stars.

Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases:

Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, run on the Titan supercomputer at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The project modeled the ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft made history in 2012 by entering interstellar space, leaving the planets and the solar wind behind...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Astrophotographer Rico Granger took this image in July, 2014 from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Lowe's Innovation Labs, the disruptive innovation hub of Lowe's Companies, Inc., has partnered with aerospace company Made in Space, to become the first to launch a commercial 3D printer to space....

The existence of a fifth giant gas planet at the time of the Solar System's formation - in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that we know of today - was first proposed in 2011. But if it did...

A prototype Apollo lunar rover that was sold to a scrapyard and reported by NASA to be lost has been found and may be heading to auction. Just a day after a story that reported the vehicle as destroyed, the moon buggy po...