Space News

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

A pair of identical, sportscar-sized satellites are poised to zoom around the Earth and track changes in water and ice, offering new insights into global warming and sea level rise, NASA said Monday.

Media will have the opportunity June 4-5 for tours, interviews and photographs of NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) as it prepares to leave Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for a scheduled mid-June lau...

The USSOCOM can now take advantage of commercial innovations by procuring satellite connectivity as a managed service SpaceNews.com

Israeli fleet operator Spacecom on May 21 announced a contract worth up to $55 million for satellite capacity on its upcoming Amos-17 satellite. SpaceNews.com

For now, scientists in Hawaii and around the world are watching Kilauea and waiting to see what else the volcano will do. "This has so far been playing out how USGS said it would," says Janine Krippner, a volcanologist a...

China has taken its first major step in a groundbreaking lunar mission. On 21 May, a probe launched from Xichang Space Centre to head beyond the Moon -- where it will lie ready to act as a communications station for... �...

An object is revolving around the sun in the vicinity of Jupiter but in the opposite direction from most other celestial bodies, according to a study featuring a Brazilian scientist as co-author....

If intelligent life re-emerges in our solar system in a few billion years, observes B. G. Buehler, only a few points of light will still be visible in the sky. What kind of theory of the universe will those beings...  �...

The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo craft that will resupply the Expedition 55 crew on the International Space Station rolled out to its launch pad Thursday night....

"Asteroid immigration from other star systems occurs because the Sun initially formed in a tightly-packed star cluster, where every star had its own system of planets and asteroids," says Dr. Helena Morais, an astronomer...

Students from Pacoima and San Fernando, California, will have the opportunity to talk with astronauts on the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 22, as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

Astronomers have detected two new bright quasars at a redshift of about 5.0. The newly found quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are among the brightest high-redshift quasars known to date. The finding was presented May 9 in a ...

A large international team of researchers has found what they are describing as more evidence of the existence of Planet Nine. In their paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, the group describes the behavior of a new...

Parsons will be pursuing more Air Force and NASA work, especially in small satellite prototyping and engineering development. SpaceNews.com

Another interstellar asteroid has been spotted in our solar system -- and this one is not a visitor but a long-term resident, a new study reports.

An Orbital ATK rocket rolls out to launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on May 17, 2018, in advance of a May 21 launch from Wallops Island, VA. The Antares will launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply m...

An Orbital ATK Antares rocket successfully launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station May 21 on a mission that may be the swan song for the company as an independent entity. SpaceNews.com

A new study has discovered the first known permanent immigrant to our Solar System. The asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter's orbit, is the first known asteroid to have been captured from another star system. The wor...

The three-kilometer-wide object is near Jupiter; future spacecraft could visit if its status is confirmed --

The three-kilometer-wide object is near Jupiter; future spacecraft could visit if its status is confirmed --

Astronauts soon will have new experiments to conduct related to emergency navigation, DNA sequencing and ultra-cold atom research when the research arrives at the International Space Station following the 4:44 a.m. EDT M...