Space News

Analyzing ripples in the fabric of space and time created by pairs of dead stars may soon solve a cosmic mystery surrounding how quickly the universe is expanding -- if scientists are lucky.

In the new book "Space 2.0," Rod Pyle gives an inside look at what's coming next for space exploration, resource extraction and settlement.

The first-ever interplanetary "mole" is about to start burrowing into the Martian surface -- but this mole is purely mechanical, and it would flounder on any other world.

As NASA selects payloads it plans to fly on commercial lunar landers, companies developing those spacecraft are skeptical any landers will be ready to fly this year, as the agency desires.

NASA has announced that the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is ready for its first demo flight. After discussions with SpaceX, both NASA and Elon Musk’s private space company determined that it was time for Dragon to fly. T...

Humans traveling to Mars will be required to operate with a degree of autonomy human astronauts have never had, due to communication delays. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

A tweet has gotten Elon Musk in hot water with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yet again.

Over the course of 11 years, Stardust visited an asteroid and two comets and sent pieces of space matter back to Earth.

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...

Chinese defense contractor CASIC is preparing to launch a new solid propellant launch vehicle in the first half of the year as part of a multiplatform commercial space strategy. SpaceNews.com

An Israeli spacecraft that blasted off last week for the country's first attempted lunar landing has encountered a technical glitch on its voyage to the moon.

The quarks inside atoms move slower than the quarks inside free-floating protons and neutrons. But why?

SpaceIL's Beresheet, Israel's private lunar lander, has hit a snag on route to the moon.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: time goes slower in space, or does it?

Astronomers have unveiled the enigmatic origins of two different gas streams from a baby star. Using ALMA, they found that the slow outflow and the high speed jet from a protostar have misaligned axes and that the former...

Astronomers have carried out an observational campaign to study the extreme variability of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) SDSS J2232'0806, nicknamed the Big Dipper. Results of these observations, described in a paper ...

This swirling palette of colours portrays the life cycle of stars in a spiral galaxy known as NGC 300.

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe:

Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is getting an extreme makeover to get it ready for the first test flights of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule. See photos of the renovatio...

NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. Space weather is important because it can have profound impacts - affecting ...

Americans aren't necessarily good at noticing how small, gradual changes in the world around them are adding up, variations that definitely make the case for climate change.

The innermost planet Mercury tends to be pretty hard to see, because it's so close to the sun. But today (Feb. 26), the planet will be at its farthest point from the sun, making it easier to spot as it escapes the star's...