Space News

Sometimes, the best way to study Mars is to stay home. There's no substitute for actual missions to Mars, but pieces of Mars have made the journey to Earth, and saved us the trip. Case in point: the treasure trove of Mar...

A fiscal year 2017 spending bill approved by a Senate appropriations subcommittee April 19 would give NASA $19.3 billion, nearly the same as 2016 but with a significant increase for the agency's Space Launch System progr...

Picture Earth at the center of a frame. The planet looks unassuming, a fleck, its blue-and-white marbling stark against a black interstellar backdrop. Yet the image likely evokes some reaction. Now imagine seeing this vi...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 21, to discuss the latest advances in the agency's development of solar electric propulsion (SEP) for deep space exploration.

NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. of Redmond, Washington, to design and develop an advanced electric propulsion system that will significantly advance the nation's commercial space capabilities, and enable deep ...

New Horizons' historic journey to Pluto and beyond continues to provide surprises. As data from the spacecraft's close encounter with Pluto and its moons arrives at Earth, scientists are piecing together an increasingly ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of light from the sun. They are created when complicated magnetic fields suddenly and explosively rearrange themselves, converting magnetic energy into light through a process called magne...

Solar flares are intense bursts of light from the sun. They are created when complicated magnetic fields suddenly and explosively rearrange themselves, converting magnetic energy into light through a process called magne...

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured unprecedented images of a recent solar flare, including bright flare ribbons seen crossing a sunspot followed by "coronal rain," plasma that condenses ...

Some of the final results sent back by ESA's Venus Express before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves - and, at an average temperature of -157°C, cold...

I'm always surprised when I find a picture of a nebula I've never heard of before, especially when it's big and splashy and very cool-looking, as well as scientifically really interesting. So I got a bit of a shock when ...

This image of early ice breakup of the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument infrared channel, at around 1148 UTC on April 13, ...

Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission.

Some of the final results sent back by ESA's Venus Express before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves - and, at an average temperature of -157°C, cold...

Tropical Cyclone Fantala has become a major tropical cyclone in the Southern Indian Ocean reaching Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. NASA's RapidScat instrument observed powerful winds wrapped...

ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration:

There is growing awareness throughout the nation of the value and importance of U.S. leadership in space exploration. The public, industry and policymakers agree that it is in America's best interest to remain a leader i...

This year, NASA will celebrate Earth Day, April 22, with a variety of live and online activities Thursday and Friday, April 21-22, to engage the public in the agency's mission to better understand and protect our home pl...

The 14-billion year history of the Universe, from the Big Bang (upper right), through the formation of galaxies, the cycling of elements in stars (top center), planetary system formation (left), to the formation of habit...

Some of the final results sent back by ESA's Venus Express before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves -- and, at an average temperature of -157C, colde...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: