Space News

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to northeastern Iran, the second largest country in the Middle East. A dryland area, most of Iran's territory is classified as arid and semi-arid, about half of which is characteri...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

New findings using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new evidence will allow researchers to further narrow theories ab...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Elon Musk's private spaceflight company, SpaceX, is another step closer to making its Falcon 9 rockets fully reusable. The company announced yesterday the first test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket engine that had already be...

Our week through the lens: 25-29 July 2016

Nearly 50 years after landing on the moon, mankind has now set its sights on sending the first humans to Mars. The moon trip took three days; a Mars trip will likely take most of a year. The difference is in more than ju...

Taking a spacewalk is no float in the park, but new space boots created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might make working outside a spacecraft safer.

In September, NASA will bring its online audience inside the world of human spaceflight as never before, from its Johnson Space Center in Houston -- home to NASA's astronaut corps, the storied mission control and several...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) will look for organics on asteroid Bennu. The NASA team explains how they developed and tested the instrument.

The Expedition 48 crew continued researching how living in space affects the eyes and the brain today. Two NASA astronauts also are getting ready for a mid-August spacewalk to install a new docking port....

A Falcon 9 first stage, which has already flown a mission for the private spaceflight company, was run through a full duration test firing on July 28, 2016. The test occurred at SpaceX's rocket development facility in Te...

As more people gain access to space, criminal acts will seed a new kind of law and order.

A new mathematical formula predicts the ratio of particular molecules in the atmospheres of far-off planets, letting researchers more easily tell when something unusual is happening there.

On a tranquil Hawaii vacation, astrophotographer Mike Beck took a chance road trip -- where he captured this image of the glimmering orange night sky.

NASA Stennis Space Center:

NASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.

Four years ago, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum swapped out NASA space shuttles, trading the orbiter Enterprise for its sister ship Discovery. Now "Star Trek," the inspiration for the earlier shuttle's na...

On Wednesday night, at around 9:30 p.m. Pacific time, a huge fireball lit up the sky from California to Utah. Moving eerily slowly, bits of it were seen to fall off like sparks as it made its way across the sky. Twitter ...

A convergence of reality and science fiction took center stage at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last week, during a salute to the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the 50th anniversary of the iconic "Star ...