Space News

Atafu Atoll in the Southern Pacific Ocean is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 18 crewmember on the International Space Station....

The protracted budget stalemate is bad news for the Air Force's 2018 space investment budget. SpaceNews.com

More than a year after suffering significant damage in a Falcon 9 explosion, a Florida launch pad is ready to return to service, incorporating improvements that will allow a higher flight rate. SpaceNews.com

Tethers Unlimited, one of three companies NASA selected Dec. 7 to build a prototype space-based 3-D printer called FabLab has grown dramatically in recent years due to interest among government and commercial customers i...

If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants a more accurate database of C-band satellite dishes, it should make the process of registering those dishes less expensive and time-consuming, fleet operator SES said D...

An international team of astronomers, using multiple observatories, have found the youngest and most distant quasar to date. The post Too Big, Too Soon. Monster Black Hole Seen Shortly After the Big Bang appeared first o...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.

A new study lays out why Venus doiesn't have a magnetic field like Earth's. Basically, it may come down to the impact that formed the Moon. The post Earth and Venus are the Same Size, so Why Doesn’t Venus Have a Magnet...

The U.K. plans to become a haven for space startups from all over the world as it aims to grow its space industry to control 10 percent of the global market by 2030. SpaceNews.com

Michael Varnum, a psychologist at Arizona State University and a member of its new Interplanetary Initiative, is trying to anticipate the discovery of extraterrestrial life. "One of the initial questions [of the initiati...

Two International Space Station crews are preparing to swap places at the orbital lab next week. In the midst of the crew swap activities, Commander Randy Bresnik also sent down dramatic photographs of the wildfires in C...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Toulouse in southern France and the surrounding agricultural landscape....

This 2,500-mile system is one of the larger canyons in the solar system.

When Sgt. Michael Virga went out on patrol last weekend in Hamilton, New Jersey, he wasn't expecting to see something truly out-of-this-world. But thanks to a spectacular fireball, that's exactly what the officer saw.

A five-month study supported by NASA has concluded that it is technically feasible to convert a launch vehicle upper stage into a habitat module that could be used on the International Space Station or future commercial ...

Olympus Mons rises 16 miles above the Martian surface, making it the solar system's tallest volcano.

Using a new type of imaging, doctors were able to peer into the eyes of a young woman and see -- on the cellular level -- the type of damage that occurs from looking directly at the sun during an eclipse.

Planetary systems form out of disks of gas and dust around young stars. How the formation proceeds, however, is complex and poorly understood. Many physical processes are involved including accretion onto the star, photo...

Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, this image shows flames and smoke from fierce blazes devastating the Los Angeles area

Tiny satellites called CubeSats have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Besides allowing researchers to test new technologies, their relative simplicity also offers hands-on training to early-career engineers.

A new study further challenges the idea that clay on Mars formed just like that on Earth --

Our week through the lens: 4-8 December 2017