Space News

The December full Cold Moon will rise tonight (Dec. 12), marking the third and final supermoon to grace the twilight sky in 2016.

Water vapor erupting from this Jovian moon could offer new pathways for exploring its subsurface ocean --

A space historian and writer recalls what made the U.S.’s orbital emissary unique --

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission will take advantage of its two-year outbound cruise to the asteroid Bennu in order to conduct a search for elusive solar system objects. Between Feb. 9 and 20, the NASA sp...

The ESA mission to the Red Planet is underway and the Trace Gas Orbiter is delivering data as planned. The 2020 ExoMars rover mission has been approved and even though the mission's Schiaparelli lander crashed, much was ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA is rescheduling the launch of its Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) spacecraft for no earlier than Wednesday, Dec. 14, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, during a one-hour window tha...

What have pulsars, quasars, dark matter and dark energy got in common? Answer: each of them took the discoverer by surprise. While much of science advances carefully and methodically, the majority of truly spectacular di...

Thanks to scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the solar system just got another member.

Christmas gifts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, courtesy of Japan.

Loaded with more than four tons of supplies and experiments, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's unpiloted H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-6) arrived at the International Space Station Dec. 13 four days after its laun...

The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of a molecule, would it still generate a shock wave?

Signs of powerful changing winds have been detected on a planet 16 times larger than Earth, over 1000 light years away - the first time ever that weather systems have been found on a gas giant outside our solar system...

Stephanie Bernard is one in 24 million. The University of Melbourne PhD candidate is the only Australian given access to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and she is using her time to explore one of the earliest galaxies i...

We know that there is sound on planets and moons in the solar system - places where there's a medium through which sound waves can be transmitted, such as an atmosphere or an ocean.

As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean -- but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task....

A technical problem has delayed until Wednesday the planned launch of a series of NASA satellites designed to study hurricanes, officials said Monday.

On 7 December, LISA Pathfinder started the extended phase of its mission, an additional six months during which scientists and engineers will push the experiment to its limits in preparation for ESA's future space observ...

Seventeen years and more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) later, Europe's Galileo satnav system is set to go live on Thursday, promising to outperform US and Russian rivals while boosting regional self-reliance.

It may not be a sleigh driven by a jolly old elf, but a Japanese cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station today (Dec. 13) to make a Christmas delivery to the outpost's six-person crew.

Launch startup Rocket Lab says it is ready to begin test flights of its Electron launch vehicle early next year, having concluded flight qualification and acceptance of the first stage booster SpaceNews.com

The Geminid meteor shower, a favorite annual night sky event among stargazers, peaks tonight (Dec. 13), and you can watch the action live here at Space.com.