Space News

The launch of an much-delayed U.S. spy satellite has been delayed again, this time to no earlier than Jan. 6, according to the United Launch Alliance.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars (a specific type of neutron star) and got zero credit for it until recently. Here's her story --

As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zeroed in on its target, the asteroid Bennu, the object transformed from a fuzzy dot into an incredibly bumpy world full of sharp contrasts. But those images don't produce themselves.

A very incomplete list of contributionsfurthering our search for life elsewhere (and other stuff) --

The European Space Agency (ESA) can look back at a fulfilling year. It has been a year marked by new Earth Observation missions to analyse and protect our planet, in particular the completion of the first wave of Coperni...

With our Moon to Mars effort underway, a new administrator takes over to lead the charge, and - oh yeah - we stuck another nearly flawless landing on Mars! All that and more as we look back at what happened...

This past year, engineers launched many oddities into space, including a Tesla Roadster, a gold-plated canopic jar and a cosmic disco ball.

The astronomer paved the way for space-based telescopes after spending decades fighting institutionalized sexism in science education.

NASA's final report from their Technosignature Workshop is now out and addresses all the ways in which humanity is looking for evidence of extra-terrestrial civilizations. The post NASA’s Technosignatures Report is Out...