Space News

Scientists have found the halogen levels in the meteorites that formed the Earth billions of years ago are much lower than previously thought.

NASA is inviting media to attend a test of parachutes for the agency's Orion spacecraft Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.

United Launch Alliance today selected L3 Technologies to provide avionics and related services for the its next-generation Vulcan rocket. SpaceNews.com

A pair of commercial resupply missions are coming and going this week at the International Space Station. Meanwhile, a new crew has arrived at its launch site to prepare for a Dec. 17 liftoff to the orbital laboratory. A...

With commercial services becoming widely available for most space activities, this the "best opportunity in a generation" for the government to decide how to work with the private sector. SpaceNews.com

"No matter what we find by studying planets orbiting ultra-cool dwarfs, we cannot lose. We can only learn. If we manage to identify the presence of life on a planet similar to those in the TRAPPIST-1 system, then we can....

China is planning a robot moon station, that can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who announced the plan at an international symposium in Shanghai at the end of Nove...

Space technology offers promise in advanced manufacturing, agriculture, energy, maritime and medical markets. SpaceNews.com

Cubic Corporation's GATR satellite antennas continue to provide communications links for residents and community leaders in Puerto Rico more than two months after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory and nearby ...

Lindsey Manufacturing, a firm that provides technology for electric utilities, has teamed up with Iridium Communications to offer a new tool for monitoring high-voltage power lines. SpaceNews.com

The latest installment in James S.A. Corey's "Expanse" series is the beginning of the end for James Holden's crew, setting a course for the final books of the series.

The Climate Corporation is adding multiple sources of aerial imagery to its digital agriculture platform, Climate FieldView, to complement the satellite imagery it has offered for years. SpaceNews.com

The European Space Agency (ESA) released a video explaining how astronomers used the Gaia telescope to discover a large star cluster earlier this year.

New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO, shown above) has revealed that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could well be a scaled-up version of Earth. Just as exciting, the same re...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli completes some tests in the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, on the International Space Station.

New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could well be a scaled-up version of Earth.

With less than four months remaining in the competition, two of the remaining teams in the Google Lunar X Prize are seeking to raise tens of millions of dollars to complete their spacecraft.

Astrophysicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have probed the timescale of atmospheric retention on Proxima Centauri b (PCb), which orbits the nearest star to our solar system, some four light years away. A ...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers has detected a new thin stellar stream in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The newly discovered feature, named "jet stream," could help researchers answer fundamental que...

NASA's New Horizons changed everything we thought we knew about this distant planet --

A smarmy captain oversees a space crew filled with people wearing bizarre hairstyles and clothing. Yup, it's got to have something to do with "Star Trek."