Space News

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this natural-color image of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. on January 24, 2016....

This road near Phoenix, Arizona leads to the heart of the Milky Way. Well, that's assuming your car will handle the 26,000 light-year drive, and can fly through, uh, space. And you can endure the cold, radiation and spac...

NASA satellites obtained a number of different views of the great winter storm that left many snowfall records from Virginia to New York City from January 22 to 24, 2016....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

"Imagine you took the frames of a movie and stacked them all randomly on top of each other. If those frames aren't labeled with a time, you can't put them in order. Did the primordial universe crunch or bang? If...

The new National Geographic Channel special "Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes" marks the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle's loss, using long-forgotten news footage, radio reports and rarely seen NASA video to retell ...

A star with an unusual history is racing through the galaxy at breakneck speed -- most likely blasted away by a supernova and carrying traces of the exploded star.

The newly proposed "Planet Nine" probably could not have triggered the comet impacts that some researchers think may be responsible for many of Earth's mass extinction events over the eons, astronomers say.

An international team of researchers has found for the first time that the connection between a galaxy cluster and surrounding dark matter is not characterized solely by the mass of clusters, but also by their formation ...

Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, the driving force for demoting Pluto, now claims evidence for a massive, distant replacement ninth planet in our solar system   --

How did the universe begin? And what came before the Big Bang? Cosmologists have asked these questions ever since discovering that our universe is expanding. The answers aren't easy to determine. The beginning of the cos...

The first node of the European Data Relay System will be launched on 29 January from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

As the U.S. Air Force develops a long-term weather satellite strategy, the service also is considering using commercial weather data to meet gaps in its forecasting capabilities. SpaceNews.com

This may come as a shock to you, but science has something of an issue with sexism. I've written about this many times, and you can probably find a few hundred thousand more words about it elsewhere. The problems run a b...

Explosions on the sun that release energy equal to millions of hydrogen bombs, and yet scientists don't understand what drives the fastest particles released in these eruptions

Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such conventional, rounded aesthetics, instead sporting a messy, indefinable shape. Known as irregular galaxies, ...

The European Space Agency's just-issued "The Moon Awakens" video lays out multiple arguments for lunar exploration, saying flatly: "Our next destination on this journey is the Moon."

The moon is so close and visible to everyone on Earth. Should we go live there?

Lockheed Martin wants to develop future telescopes using the latest and most advanced technology to allow the creation of lighter, thinner and cheaper telescope models. By using 'Spider,' this new breed of telescopes hop...

The first laser node of the European Data Relay System will be launched into space on 29 January from Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Tiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of Space missions?...