Space News

NASA will launch a suborbital sounding rocket--research rockets that fly a parabolic path, spending only about five minutes in space--carrying a Penn State led experiment to test a newly-developed X-ray spectrograph and ...

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg...

The Dutch are now starting to see their famous spring flowers poke through the winter soil, but a few weeks ago it was a different story as a cold snap took grip....

The Expedition 55 crew is ramping up for Thursday's spacewalk and training for next week's arrival of the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship....

"I spent an hour just staring at this image," lead researcher Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University says as he recalls first seeing the Hubble image of NGC 1052-DF2. "This thing is astonishing a gigantic blob so sparse th...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

"It used to be the thought that life could only exist in a narrow zone near a planet's star because you need to be there to maintain liquid water," said Rice University geophysicist Adrian Lenardic. "Then, we send Voyage...

Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don't find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as NGC1052-DF2, that is almost completely devoid of the stuff, they were shocked.

Hubble Space Telescope News:

The newfound object NGC1052-DF2 defies easy explanation, and could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve --

Undergraduate students watched their spaceflight projects soar into the sky over the weekend, thanks to a two-year NASA program that turned classroom lessons into hands-on experience.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess ...

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible," said sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. A one-way trip to Mars using conventional chemical rockets could take up to nine months...

The now defunct Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is en route to crash into Earth - completing its "atmospheric reentry phase". While experts have been aware that this would happen for more than a year, there has been hug...

A colorful mosaic of the Milky Way shows the dusty galactic core glowing over a puddle of acid water at São Domingos Mine in southeast Portugal.

SpaceX's spectacular Falcon Heavy launch last month -- which saw a powerful rocket lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with a Tesla Roadster on board -- is just one herald of the new era of space exploration, ar...

Next summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission -- when humans first set foot on another celestial object.

"I imagined that on the other side of this hatch is an atmosphere and environment that doesn't support my life form. But I couldn't make myself nervous. And I tried to imagine myself being on another star system 10,000 l...

"I imagined that on the other side of this hatch is an atmosphere and environment that doesn't support my life form. But I couldn't make myself nervous. And I tried to imagine myself being on another star system 10,000 l...

A view looking north to south of Egypt's famous Giza Pyramid Complex, as seen by ESA's Proba-1 minisatellite.

Scientists looking for life on distant planets are making plans to search non-Earth-like planets based on discoveries within our solar system that are challenging long-standing ideas about habitable zones, plate tectonic...

"This was a time when dinosaurs were just stepping onto the stage, and they were not very big and not very remarkable animals then," said Christian Sidor, a University of Washington biology professor and paleontologist. ...