Space News

NASA has opened accreditation for media to attend the September launch of the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid. NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIR...

The European Space Agency on May 20 produced a radar satellite image of a 2-kilometer-long oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that ESA officials say could be from the missing EgyptAir MS804, which disappeared on ...

Earth observation image of the week: A Sentinel-2A image of the Rub' al Khali desert

A manned mission to Mars is a hot topic in space, and has been for a long time. Most of the talk around it has centred on the required technology, astronaut durability, and the overall feasibility of the mission. But now...

The crew was back at work today with more life science studies and human research. Cygnus cargo transfer work is ongoing as robotics controllers prepare for an external video survey....

An international team of astronomers have found evidence of ice and comets orbiting a nearby sun-like star, which could give a glimpse into how our own solar system developed.

New Horizons:

We're in store for an exciting weekend as the Earth and Mars get closer to each other than at any time in the last ten years. To take advantage of this special opportunity, the Hubble Space Telescope, normally busy eyein...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains why capturing imagery of the Red Planet with the Hubble Space Telescope is still important, even with multiple missions studying it on the surface and from orbit.

This Sunday morning (May 22), Mars reaches opposition with the sun. This means that Mars will be exactly opposite the sun in Earth's sky, making this weekend a great time to see the Red Planet for yourself.

"Globular clusters are some of the oldest objects in the Universe. Although we have some ideas for what is going on in them, every time we look carefully we find something unexpected. They are both fascinating and frustr...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has recently observed Mars, as it neared opposition and closest approach to Earth in over a decade. The HST has been used to not only image our solar system planets, but also study their ...

Landing rocket boosters on an open-ocean platform has been a massive engineering hurdle for SpaceX.

Follow the launch of Europe's 13th and 14 Galileo satellites on Tuesday 24 May, live from 10:28 CEST

"We have tended to think of Mars as being simple," observed John Grotzinger, Caltech's chair of the Division of Planetary and Geological Sciences and former Curiosity Mission project Scientist. "We once thought of the ea...

The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has detected a potential oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea - in the same area where EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared early yesterday morning on its way from Paris to Cairo.

Our week through the lens: 16-20 May 2016

Orbital ATK has unveiled a practical new proposal to build a near term man-tended outpost in lunar orbit that could launch by 2020 and be operational in time for a lunar link-up with NASA's Orion crew module during its m...

A huge fireball lit up the night sky over the northeastern United States Tuesday (May 17). And if you want to go meteorite hunting, there may be a rich reward if you find a piece of the object.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

I hope you're sitting down for this shocker: Cramer is a global warming denier. And to be clear, he's not just a denier. He's a crackpot. First, watch this video put together by the folks here at Slate to get an overview...