Space News

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to observe galaxy cluster Abell S1063, as it was 4 billion years ago. The phenomenon of 'gravitational lensing' seen in the image is created by the cluster's huge mass and reveals ligh...

Thinking of taking a vacation this summer? Maybe you want to distract yourself with a bit of light science fiction fun. How about a deadly alien life form harbored within our solar system? That's what Nick Kanas presents...

The incredibly sensitive LUX dark matter detector, buried under a mile of rock, has come up empty on its 20-month search for dark matter -- further narrowing down the possible characteristics of the strange substance.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

Join us on 26 July for a Google hangout with updates and Q&A with ESA experts and scientists focusing on the crucial milestones during the spacecraft's seven-month cruise to the Red Planet

"Star Trek Beyond" is the 13th outing for the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. See stills and photos from the 2016 Star Trek movie here.

Fifty years ago Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise began their journey into space--the final frontier. Now, as the newest Star Trek film hits cinemas, the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope is also explori...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

In the second it takes to read these words, 65 billion neutrinos will shoot through every square centimeter of your body. Luckily, these infinitesimal particles don't do any harm -- they pass through us, as they do with ...

Tightly spaced planets inside an alien solar system known as Kepler-80 boast a rare orbital configuration.

New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously -- the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on an...

Temperatures are rising and sea ice is melting at a record rate this year.

Just in time for the new "Star Trek" movie arrival in theaters this weekend, the Hubble Space Telescope released its latest image from its "Frontier Fields" program.

Since 2000, Elon Musk been moving forward with his vision of a fleet of reusable rockets, ones that will restore domestic launch capability to the US and drastically reduce the cost of space launches. The largest rocket ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the TV series "Star Trek" has captured the public's imagination with the signature phrase, "To boldly go where no one has gone before." NASA's Hubble Space Telescope doesn't "b...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer--the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission.

The world's largest annual meeting of space explorers will land in Houston in Fall 2019 to honor the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

"While it is well-know that Yellowstone has erupted catastrophically in recent times, perhaps less widely appreciated is that these were just the latest in a protracted history of numerous catastrophic super-eruptions th...

This week NASA hosted the Viking Mars Landers 40th anniversary symposium. In 1976 Viking 1 and 2 were the first landers to successfully land on Mars....

These days, we're used to seeing pictures of planets sent back by spacecraft. Some pictures look colourful, others less so. But do they show what each planet really looks like?

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was bolted into place on the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 10:03 a.m. EDT as the station flew about 252 statute miles over the California and Oregon border....