Space News

Europe's fifth and sixth Galileo satellites - subject to complex salvage manoeuvres following their launch last year into incorrect orbits - will help to perform an ambitious year-long test of Einstein's most famous theo...

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Giant Magellan Telescope is scheduled to take place Wednesday (Nov. 11) at the Las Campanas Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The huge instrument should begin observing the heavens in ...

From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA's New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week's 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Divisi...

Peering into darkness can strike fear into the hearts of some, but a new space telescope will soon peer into the darkness of "near space" (within a few thousand light years of Earth). Scientists are using the telescope t...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The challenge for SpaceX is finding a balance between demanding the most of its workers and keeping them happy overall. Getting that formula right is an often-overlooked key to long-term success. SpaceNews.com

Citing a communication breakdown, the radio telescope's director steps down --

Peering into darkness can strike fear into the hearts of some, but a new space telescope will soon peer into the darkness of "near space" (within a few thousand light years of Earth). Scientists are using the telescope t...

New Horizons mission finds evidence for cryovolcanism on the distant dwarf planet --

Hydra, Nix, Kerberos and Styx behave like 'spinning tops" according to SETI Institute's Mark Showalter. Hydra - the fastest rotation - spins at dizzying 89 times per Pluto orbit.

Physicists use particle accelerators to find differences between antimatter and matter, which could offer insight into why matter dominates the universe --

From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA's New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week's 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Divisi...

The company plans to deploy a constellation of radar imaging satellites in the early 2020s. SpaceNews.com

An enduring astronomical mystery is how stars and galaxies acquire their magnetic fields. Physicists Jonathan Squire and Amitava Bhattacharjee at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...

NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren ended their spacewalk at 2:10 p.m. EST with the repressurization of the U.S. Quest airlock. The astronauts restored the port truss (P6) ammonia cooling system to its origina...

Could there be intelligent life hanging out in the vicinity of the star system KIC 8462852? The strange and strong dimming of this star has encouraged speculation that a technologically sophisticated civilization has bui...

Company officials say they are positioning EchoStar to capture the growing demand for broadband regardless of what form it takes. SpaceNews.com

Monday's briefing begins with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter adding his voice to the chorus of senior defense officials calling out Russia for provocative space activities. SpaceNews.com

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute combined dynamical, thermal, and chemical models of the Moon's formation to explain the relative lack of volatile elements in lunar rocks. Lunar rocks closely resemble Earth roc...

Space Coast Intelligent Solutions' meteor camera network captured an in-falling remnant of Comet Encke, progenitor of the annual Taurid meteor shower. Slow motion playback of the event reveals a halo of ice crystals illu...

NASA's Swift spacecraft has detected its 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB). GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole. "Dete...

Two University of Wisconsin-Stout professors are taking their students to Mars.