Space News

Read about ESA's service module that will power NASA's Orion spacecraft to the Moon and beyond

A team of researchers has discovered a powerful galactic blast produced by a giant black hole about 26 million light years from Earth. The black hole is the nearest supermassive black hole to Earth that is currently unde...

Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

The National Geographic Channel's "Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes" will premiere Jan. 25, three days before the 30th anniversary of the accident that killed seven astronauts. But you can get a sneak peak now in an exclu...

A black hole relatively close to the Milky Way -- a mere 26 million light-years from earth -- has shown evidence of a huge X-ray blast outward that may have "snowplowed," or swept away, nearby star-forming dust.

An astrophysicist has discovered something even rarer than a double-black hole galaxy: a skinny black hole.

Have you ever wished that there was an instruction manual for life? A second edition of "Success Strategies from Women in STEM" aims to be that book for women in research - a 'portable mentor' to help individual research...

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To mark the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle disaster, National Geographic Channel has compiled footage from several outlets about the crew and launch day (January 28th, 1986). It will premiere on Jan. 25th, 2016.

Although a mysterious cloud of gas was supposed to get eaten by the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, its survival has revealed some interesting features surrounding the gravitational behemoth.

Virgin Galactic plans to roll out and christen its second SpaceShipTwo on Feb. 19, some 15 months after its first suborbital spacecraft broke apart during a powered test flight. The spaceship will be revealed at the Moja...

"Star Trek" fans assemble! This year, fans of the sci-fi franchise who also love construction will have the chance to build their own Klingon battle cruiser, transporter room and (of course) the famed USS Enterprise.

I frequently write about our Earth as a planet, a world, an interconnected system of water, air, energy ... and people. We are a part of this planet as much as it is a host to us. While our effect on it is subtle, in the...

On 14 March, the launch window opens for ExoMars 2016, ESA's next mission to Mars, composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli....

Geophysical Journal International (GJI) is delighted to announce the winners of its Student Author Awards for 2015.  The awards are designed to recognise and acknowledge the best papers submitted to GJI by young scient...

Evidence for powerful blasts produced by a giant black hole has been discovered using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing such viole...

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. The space mission has observed 40 "X-ray binarie...

With space as much a "final frontier" today to "Star Trek" fans as it was in 1966, a new set of stamps will commemorate the sci-fi franchise's 50th anniversary.

In January of 2015, astronomers discovered a solar system with five Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy. Thanks to the NASA Kepler mission, the scientists observed a pale-yellow Sun-like star (Keple...

In this episode of Richard Garriott's miniseries, he shows us how Earth formed, how remnants of that formation still wander the solar system and how our planet came to be covered by oceans. Next... --

In this episode of Richard Garriott's mini-series, he shows us how Earth formed, how remnants of that formation still wander the solar system and how our planet came to be covered by oceans. Next... --

In this episode of Richard Garriott's mini-series, he shows us how the earth formed, how remnants of that formation still wander the solar system, and how the Earth came to be covered by oceans. Next... --