Space News

A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket on May 24 successfully placed two European Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites into medium-Earth orbit - the 13th and 14th in a series of 26 Galileo spacecraft, with ...

Access by the astronomers at The University of Alabama to the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope in the Canary Islands will benefit both research and students at UA.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of black holes form...

Astrophysicists have taken a major step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes formed. Using data from Hubble and two other space telescopes, Italian researchers have found the best evidence yet for the se...

"Our discovery, if confirmed, would explain how these monster black holes were born," said Fabio Pacucci, lead author of the study, of Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. "This new result helps to explain why we see...

Astrophysicists have taken a major step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes formed. Using data from Hubble and two other space telescopes, Italian researchers have found the best evidence yet for the se...

A U.S. Senate panel wants to prohibit the Air Force from spending $393 million next year on a next-generation ground system to control GPS satellites until the Defense Secretary completes a congressionally mandated revie...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of black holes form...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Tuesday's briefing begins with SpaceX confirming that it will attempt to land Falcon 9's first stage at Cape Canaveral again following a July launch of its Dragon cargo ship to the ISS. SpaceNews.com

NASA contractor Wyle is being acquired by Houston-based KBR Inc. under a deal announced May 23. SpaceNews.com

More than 100 researchers and students from South Africa and around the world are meeting this week to share plans to use the MeerKAT radio telescope....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A University of Oklahoma team has detected for the first time the most luminous gamma-ray emission from a galaxy--the merging galaxy Arp 220 is the nearest ultraluminous infrared galaxy to Earth, and it reveals the hidde...

"The ability to measure the top quark mass precisely is fortuitous because it, together with the Higgs boson mass, tells us whether the universe is stable or not," said Robert Kehoe, a physicist at Southern Methodist Uni...

The fate of water on Mars has been energetically debated by scientists because the planet is currently dry and cold, in contrast to the widespread fluvial features that etch much of its surface. Scientists believe that i...

ESA Space Science:

NASA's first spacecraft designed to return a piece of an asteroid to Earth arrived Friday, May 20, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and has begun final preparations in advance of its September launch.

Galileo 13 and 14 were launched in the early morning hours from French Guiana on May 24, 2016. The satellite constellation will consist of 24 satellites when they are all launched.

The Universe lights up when you look at it with different eyes. And, in a very real sense, I mean that literally. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is more than just a few hundred billion stars. It's also loaded with gas and du...

The Expedition 47 crew is getting a new module recently attached to the Tranquility module ready for expansion later this week. The International Space Station residents are also running experiments today exploring a wid...

Mysterious high-rise clouds seen appearing suddenly in the martian atmosphere on a handful of occasions may be linked to space weather, say Mars Express scientists.