Space News

A pair of new deals shows that, despite the growing number of small launch vehicles under development, demand from smallsat developers for rideshares on larger vehicles remains high. SpaceNews.com

A cyberattack that may have compromised information about current and former NASA employees is only the latest sign of ongoing information security problems that have plagued the agency for years. SpaceNews.com

While reliable inflight WiFi is quickly becoming a 'must have' for commercial air travel, the need for uninterrupted connectivity to small mobility terminals supporting mission critical applications has long been an indi...

In their efforts to find evidence of life beyond our Solar System, scientists are forced to take what is known as the “low-hanging fruit” approach. Basically, this comes down to determining if planets could be “pot...

Three members of the International Space Station's Expedition 57 crew, including NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, returned to Earth Thursday, safely landing at 12:02 a.m. EST (11:02 a.m. local time) in Kazakhsta...

As the brilliant comet 46P/Wirtanen streaked across the sky, NASA telescopes caught it on camera from multiple angles.

If humanity is going to push the boundaries of space exploration, we're going to need plants to come along for the ride. Not just spinach or potatoes, though--plants can do so much more than just feed us.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Wednesday's (Dec. 19) planned launch of the NROL-71 spy satellite was scrubbed due to a rocket glitch. The liftoff is now scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 20) at 8:31 p.m. EST (0131 GMT on Dec. 21).

A new look at Hubble images of galaxies could be a step toward illuminating the elusive nature of dark matter, the unobservable material that makes up the majority of the universe, according to a study published online t...

Blue Origin's 10th New Shepard flight -- scheduled to launch on Dec. 18 before being delayed to no earlier than tomorrow (Dec. 21) -- has now been pushed to early 2019, according to a statement the company posted on Twit...

As comet 46P/Wirtanen neared Earth on December 2, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a remarkably close look the innermost regions of the comet's coma, the gaseous envelope aro...

NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its copper-colored covering faintly i...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

ESA's 35-metre antenna in Australia has now been powered by the sun for over a year, cutting costs and reducing carbon emissions by 330 tonnes--equivalent to 1.9 million km driven by car.

First images of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst back on Earth

The first trailer for Sony Pictures' "Men In Black: International" has been released, with the memorable "Thor: Ragnarok" duo of Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson teaming up once again to fight aliens.

SpaceX postponed the launch of a new GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force today (Dec. 20) due to dismal weather over the mission's Florida launch site.

A potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), designated 2003 SD220 (or 163899), is expected to fly by the Earth on Saturday, December 22, at around 1:04 UTC. The space rock, estimated to be about a mile wide (1.6 kilometers),...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): As comet 46P/Wirtanen neared Earth on December 2, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)F...

The eye of the tiger is flying high above Antarctica once again.

Researchers at the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have discovered a new, exotic class of planets outside our solar system. These so-called super-Earths were formed at high temperatures close to their host star and ...