Space News

The recent explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a test on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral may have opened a Pandora's box of legal problems previously only discussed with hushed voices in space law circles.

Looking for food that could be harvested by astronauts far from Earth, researchers focused on spirulina, which has been harvested for food in South America and Africa for centuries. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti a...

A trip to the Red Planet begins long in advance of liftoff. NASA's journey to Mars includes preparing astronauts to cope with several months of isolation, confinement, and in an extreme environment (identified with the a...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Fraser, Morgan and Sondy were all at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the launch of the...

NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Super Typhoon Meranti as it continued to move toward Taiwan and the northern Philippines.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Today the annual AIAA Space 2016 conference began with an opening plenary that included presentations by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Winston A. Beauchamp, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space, and the...

An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed....

After Tropical Depression 19W moved ashore in central Vietnam NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the system and found some powerful thunderstorms over Thailand, Vietnam and Laos capable of dropping heavy rainfal...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

My friend Randall Munroe is a wonder. He is more than just ridiculously smart; he knows how to access all that wonderful knowledge stored in his brain, combine various pieces of it, and then present it in innovative ways...

In case of abort during launch of the private spaceflight company's New Shepard rocket, the motor will ignite and push the rocket away from the booster. The capsule will then land using its parachutes.

A Professor at the University of Strathclyde has had his name written among the stars, after an asteroid was named after him.

The star SAO 244567 has been studied for over 45 years. According to European Southern Observatory, "between 1971 and 2002 the surface temperature of the star skyrocketed by almost 40,000 degrees Celsius."

The story of the first American to endure almost a year in space may soon be headed for the silver screen. Sony Pictures secured the movie rights to "Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars," a new memoir by ...

An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed. Now the...

An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed. Now the...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Today: Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) reconfiguration: FE-6 performed the teardown and removal of the Heart Cell payload from the MSG....

Magma build-up at Japan's Sakurajima volcano poses threat to 'Naples of the Eastern World.' Pioneering new study could help provide early-warning system for volcanic eruptions worldwide. A team of experts have developed ...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers led by Joel Hartman of Princeton University has detected two new "hot Jupiter" exoplanets, less massive than our solar system's biggest planet, but with a radius larger th...

You go out and look at the stars year after year and never see any of them get up and walk away from their constellations. Take a time machine back to the days of Plato and Socrates and only careful viewing would reveal ...