Space News

In the lead-up to a total solar eclipse, most of the attention is on the sun, but Earth's moon also has a starring role.

Refurbishing a shuttle-era cargo container used to transfer cargo to the International Space Station, Lockheed Martin is prototyping a deep space habitat for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. This prototype will integrate ev...

Germany's space agency, DLR, signed a delayed but long-expected contract with Bremen-based satellite manufacturer OHB Systems for an experimental telecommunications satellite that will be used in part by the Bundeswehr, ...

Visitors to the Experimental Aircraft Association's 2017 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin will see NASA's latest technologies from across the agency.

Both NASA and the two companies developing commercial crew vehicles say those efforts remain on schedule for test flights that are in some cases less than a year away. SpaceNews.com

The Kepler space observatory has made some interesting finds since it began its mission back in March of 2009. Even after the mission suffered the loss of two reaction wheels, it has continued to make discoveries as part...

Millions of people, from students to rocket scientists, are poised to contribute to a massive scientific effort to study the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States August 21.

One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere the Solar System. Some scientists such as Penn State astrophysicist Jason Wright, a member of the Center for Exoplane...

Astronomers have finally solved the mystery of peculiar signals coming from a nearby star, a story that sparked intense public speculation this week that perhaps, finally, alien life had been found.

Three new crew members for the International Space Station are scheduled to launch on Friday, July 28.

The German Aerospace Center, Germany's space agency, will fly two experiments on a suborbital flight by Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle later this year as part of an effort to diversify its microgravity research effort...

Elon Musk recently announced on Twitter that he had received "verbal government approval" for his Boring Company to build a superfast Hyperloop transit system that would take people from New York to Washington, D.C., in ...

Two huge, Apollo-era NASA computers and more than 300 data-recording tapes were found in the basement of a dead engineer in late 2015, according to media reports.

Can space-based experiments help make cotton a more sustainable plant on Earth? A new science challenge will offer researchers up to $1 million in funding to find out.

The death of a massive star in a distant galaxy 10 billion years ago created a rare superluminous supernova that astronomers say is one of the most distant ever discovered. The brilliant explosion, more than three times ...

SpaceX is a private spaceflight company that regularly delivers payloads to the International Space Station via its Dragon spacecraft.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242, shown here as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies ...

Star Trek's" mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before is symbolized by captain William Shatner who narrates a new 45-minute documentary ...

A UK-built satellite which will be part of Europe's world-leading environmental monitoring programme - Copernicus - is ready for launch.

NASA invites eclipse viewers around the country to participate in a nationwide science experiment by collecting cloud and air temperature data and reporting it via their phones.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite takes us over the Baltic Sea and surrounding countries....

Our week through the lens: 17-21 July 2017