Space News

Media are invited to watch engineers test a mockup of NASA's Orion spacecraft in a simulated ocean splashdown Thursday, Aug. 25, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

For the first time, human beings will hear sounds from the Red Planet's surface --

Accredited education institutions, nonprofit organizations and NASA centers can join the adventure and challenges of space while helping the agency achieve its exploration goals through the next round of the agency's Cub...

We frequently call the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter "our favorite camera" and for good reason. HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, is the largest and most powerful camera eve...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The ongoing hunt for exoplanets has yielded some very interesting returns in recent years. All told, the Kepler mission has discovered more than 4000 candidates since it began its mission in March of 2009. Amidst the man...

A light that appeared high over St. Louis' Gateway Arch is perplexing officials.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) is releasing the video "Omics: Advancing Personalized Medicine from Space to Earth", to highlight its Twins Study, coinciding with National Twins Days....

Jupiter's shadow makes this volcanic moon's atmosphere freeze solid once per day --

A space shuttle cockpit that was used to train all of the crews that launched on board the winged orbiters has landed in Oklahoma, where it will be displayed at a museum named for a veteran NASA astronaut.

In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner structure: Dawn's own motion....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured imagery of a Kreutz sungrazer comet burn up on approach to the Sun (Aug 2-4, 2016 UTC). The comet did not survive the encounter.

A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, according to observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2015. This would represent the highest concentration of bl...

NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) is releasing the video "Omics: Advancing Personalized Medicine from Space to Earth", to highlight its Twins Study, coinciding with National Twins Days. This is the last video in a seri...

Two astronauts are getting ready for a spacewalk amidst ongoing heart and genetics research this week. The crew also practiced the techniques necessary to care for a crew member during a medical emergency in space....

UCLA astronomers have made the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant galaxy. Oxygen, the third-most abundant chemical element in the universe, is created inside stars and released into inters...

An accurate method for spacecraft navigation takes a leap forward today as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester publish a paper that reveals a spacecraft's position in space in the direc...

With the election coming up, I hear a lot of people making the claim that both parties are the same. This makes my head explode. The GOP's platform literally lists out its anti-science stance, from abstinence-only educat...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a space telescope that mapped the entire sky in infrared wavelengths.

Humanity has long dreamed of establishing itself on other worlds, even before we started going into space. We've talked about colonizing the Moon, Mars, and even establishing ourselves on exoplanets in distant star syste...