Space News

The U.S. House subcommittee that provides oversight to military space matters wants to re-assign some of the Air Force's space weather duties to the National Reconnaissance Office. SpaceNews.com

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation April 20 to improve space weather forecasting and preparedness efforts in parallel with a space weather strategy released by the White House last year. SpaceNews.com

The recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that successfully carried out history's first upright touchdown from a just flown rocket onto a droneship at sea, has just been moved back to the firms processing hanger ...

Earth may have a new neighbour, in the form of an Earth-like planet in a solar system only 16 light years away. The planet orbits a star named Gliese 832, and that solar system already hosts two other known exoplanets: G...

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

An April 19 House hearing about potential policy changes that could affect development of small launch vehicles did not result in any consensus on what action, if any, to take on issues that could affect the competitiven...

In a discovery with implications for long-term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis retur...

Czech Deputy Prime Minister Pavel Belobradek has announced the country's government is considering establishing a national space agency to boost the Czech Republic's domestic space sector. The announcement was made follo...

Scientists are "cautiously saying" the light may be associated with the black hole merger detected via gravitational waves --

The shimmering atmospheric lighting displays known as auroras have never looked sharper than in a new NASA video.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The path for humans to Mars could be paved by University at Buffalo students....

Starting Tuesday (April 26), the new six-episode Science Channel series "Space's Deepest Secrets" will follow scientists unlocking intriguing mysteries of outer space.

Are you a) a science enthusiast, 2) a science-fiction fan, and γ) live near Washington, D.C.? Then you're going to love this weekend: Smithsonian magazine is holding a festival called "The Future Is Here," from Friday t...

Tim Peake: Weather's picking up over Europe at last...still a few weeks left for some pics! Larger image...

On 23 April 2001, Italian ESA Umberto Guidoni made history as the first European astronaut to board the International Space Station....

Black holes aren't the cosmic vacuum cleaners they are rumored to be, but could you still fall into one? What would happen to you? The answer to that question depends on whom you ask (thanks to... --

Newton's Third Law suggests hitting an asteroid could deflect it from a collision course with Earth. ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission plus NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft will test an impactor and measure...

A look at people behind NASA's New Horizons mission, the Hubble Telescope and four other past, current and future missions and projects. The new series will premiers on Tues. April 26th at 9pm.

Our Solar System sure seems like an orderly place. The orbits of the planets are predictable enough that we can send spacecraft on multi-year journeys to them and they will reliably reach their destinations. But we've on...

With just two days to liftoff, the next Sentinel for Europe's environmental monitoring programme in now poised high in the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.