Space News

A new study suggests that the temperature of a planet doesn't always stabilize over time, so hot-blooded worlds may have a hard time holding onto liquid water -- even if they reside in the temperate region around their s...

A Dragon returns: SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft has been set free from the International Space Station, and it's on its way to Earth with 3,000 lbs. of experiments and cargo (including 12 mice) bound for splashdown.

You can check out the nearby star Proxima Centauri -- which hosts a newly discovered, potentially Earth-like planet -- during a free webcast by the Slooh Community Observatory tonight (Aug. 26) at 8 p.m. EDT.

SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship splashed down Friday in the Pacific Ocean, returning a load of NASA research from the International Space Station, the US space agency said.

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

...let's not lose our minds --

The Juno spacecraft made history on July 4th, 2016, when it became the second spacecraft in history to achieve orbit around Jupiter for the sake of a long-term mission. Following in the footsteps of the Galileo mission, ...

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The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the universe was only 4 billion years old....

Researchers at Bar Ilan University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, both in Israel, have developed new technology that allows tiny bots to release drugs into the body controlled by human thought alone. The t...

SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:47 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 26, southwest of Baja California with more than 3,000 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples ...

Astronomers say ultradiffuse or “fluffy” Dragonfly 44 shouldn’t be able to hold itself together with so few stars  --

The Sentinel-1A satellite has given us a picture of the ground deformation caused by the 24 August earthquake in Italy

Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University, has asked "what right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) late last month decommissioned a 38-year-old communications satellite that for 21 years had helped to link NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the outside world. It was amon...

"Very soon after its discovery, we realized this galaxy had to be more than meets the eye. It has so few stars that it would quickly be ripped apart unless something was holding it together," said Yale University astrono...

Being able to witness a solar eclipse is certainly a distinct experience. Even though the spectacle is mostly visual, there can be other effects as well. The air can cool, and observers may notice a decrease in wind spee...

Now available is the August 10, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Leslie Deutsch (NASA JPL) who discussed "The Deep Space Network - The Next 50 Years."...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have detected a brown dwarf orbiting HR 2562 - a nearby star known to host a debris disk. The newly discovered substellar companion is the first brown dwarf-mass object found to reside in the inne...

Our week through the lens: 22-26 August 2016

There's a real treat in the sky over the next few nights: Venus and Jupiter will be very close together. How close? Very, very close. Closest approach (what astronomers call the appulse, but is more colloquially and comm...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station beginning at 5:45 a.m. EDT....