Space News

One future journey through the solar system might be possible, thanks to a sail powered by the sun.

A photo taken yesterday (April 17) by DigitalGlobe's sharp-eyed WorldView-2 satellite shows the damage done to the famous 850-year-old Paris church.

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,600 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 4:46 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Faci...

China aims to launch a bold sample-return mission just three years from now, according to the nation's state-run Xinhua news agency.

The Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons wrapped up in 2017, when the spacecraft was sent plunging into the gas giant to meet its end. But there’s still a lot of data from the mission to keep scientists busy. A team...

They say dress for the job you want, not the job you have, but it doesn't seem like the heroines of the first two "Star Wars" trilogies got that memo.

NASA's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, has died.

Still in testing mode, the U.S. Air Force Space Fence on Kwajalein Atoll detected India's March 27 anti-satellite test and issued a break-up alert.

This Earth Day, April 22, NASA invites you to celebrate our beautiful home planet by participating in a global social media event and local events around the country.

An asteroid the size of a house gave Earth a close shave today (April 18), passing nearer to our planet than any other space rock will for the rest of this year -- that is, as far as we know.

NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and its hot sub-Neptune companion, were first observed by TESS i...

Beresheet's farewell photo shows the battered patch of lunar ground that would become the little probe's final resting place.

The Israeli start-up behind last week's failed lunar landing says human error may have caused the spacecraft to crash into the moon.

This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 29th anniversary in space. The nebula, created by a binary star system, is one of the many object...

A flying observatory has pinpointed the first type of molecule that formed in the universe after the Big Bang.

NASA is giving university students an opportunity to interact with agency leadership, including NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, as well as astronauts abroad the International Space Station, during a live event 2 p.m....

Rajanik Mark, Satixfy's chief operating officer, said the company has created its own chipsets that it can build in-house to bring down the cost of antenna modules that are built into full user terminals. SpaceNews.com

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 29th birthday with this incredible view of the Southern Crab Nebula

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An independent report concluded that NASA has no chance of sending humans to Mars by 2033, with the earliest such a mission could be flown being the late 2030s. SpaceNews.com

On April 10, the world got to see the first image taken of a black hole in space, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope, a worldwide collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists including a substantial team at the Uni...

Between 2014 and 2016, the scientific camera system OSIRIS onboard ESA's Rosetta spacecraft captured almost 70000 images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. They not only document the most extensive and demanding comet m...