Space News

The late John Glenn was the first American in orbit, and that the Russian pooch Laika was the first dog—but it's time to acknowledge another species --

United Launch Alliance is paying the federal government $100,000 to settle allegations employees received kickbacks from a subcontractor. SpaceNews.com

A billionaire-funded plan aims to send a probe to another star. But can it be done? --

In the "Star Wars" universe, people who are strong with the Force can do amazing things. But could this incredible power be spread like the flu?

New images captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show small, erosion-carved cracks in Red Planet sand dunes. The features may be infant versions of similar-looking but larger Martian channel-networks that have b...

From "Aliens" to "Interstellar," Hollywood has long used suspended animation to overcome the difficulties of deep space travel, but the once-fanciful sci-fi staple is becoming scientific fact.

An Ariane 5 lifted off this evening to deliver two telecom satellites, Star One-D1 and JCSat-15, into their planned orbits.

Is antimatter just like matter, but, well, opposite? This question has bedeviled physicists for decades. Antimatter is very similar to matter --it's made up of subatomic particles juts like matter is, but they have an op...

The transition office for President-elect Donald Trump is adding one, and perhaps up to three, people to the landing team assigned to NASA to provide more insight into commercial space activities.

On a clear evening in April of 1789, the renowned astronomer William Herschel continued his unrelenting survey of the night sky, hunting for new cosmic objects--and found cause to celebrate! He spotted this bright spiral...

Capri Chasma is located in the eastern portion of the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars, the largest known canyon system in the Solar System. Deeply incised canyons such as this are excellent targets for studying th...

Contact lenses, spectacles and eye implants are now being made more accurately thanks to research instruments flying on the International Space Station.

Boeing and Engility received multi-million contract options to support U.S. Air Force space operations. SpaceNews.com

The Standard Model may be incomplete, but how to fix it?

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora. Pandora (52 miles, 84 kilometers) across orbits Saturn just outside the narrow F ring....

New Horizons:

An Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) robotic capture module system mockup clutches a mock asteroid boulder at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The robotic portion of ARM is targeted for launch in ...

In newly released video, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk can be seen expressing both dread and unbridled joy as he watches a Falcon 9 reusable rocket booster make its historic first landing at Cape Canaveral, Florida,...

In "Passengers," a 2016 science-fiction thriller film two space travelers wake up 90 years too soon from an induced hibernation on board a spaceship bound for a new planet. From "Aliens" to "Interstellar," Hollywood has ...

Are we alone? It's a question that has obsessed us for centuries, and now we have the technology to do more than wonder. Scientists on the hunt for distant planets and extraterrestrial intelligence explore faraway galaxi...

European launch provider Arianespace completed its 11th and final launch of the year Dec. 21, putting satellites for Asia's and South America's largest regional operators on their way to the geostationary arc.

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