Space News

NASA and the European Space Agency's long-running Hubble Space Telescope just produced an amazing close-up of a spiral galaxy, similar to our own Milky Way.

Space tourism company Space Adventures has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought nearly two years ago by a man who signed up for the company's proposed mission then sought a refund of his deposit.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

The two new satellites will be situated in different geostationary orbital slots to operate in X, military Ka and UHF bands. SpaceNews.com

Vice President Mike Pence used a speech at a major space industry conference May 6 to restate the Trump administration's space policy efforts without making any major new announcements. SpaceNews.com

The rogue nation conducted its first missile test in 18 months early on May 4, launching a short-range vehicle east into the Pacific Ocean. A Planet Labs cubesat saw the smoke trail.

The Andes mountains in South America are a hotspot of astronomy today, but ancient peoples knew it was a great place for astronomy and lived their lives in tune with the night sky. Today we’ll learn all about what they...

Scientists have come up with a new fire extinguisher for space.

WASHINGTON -- The first project of the newly created Space Development Agency will be to design a large constellation of commercially produced satellites in low Earth orbit to serve as a communications layer and take ove...

Bear Grylls isn't a climate scientist, but in his travels around the world as an adventurer, survivalist and host of numerous nature shows, he has witnessed firsthand our planet's changing climate. This is especially tru...

WASHINGTON -- Satellites that increasingly rely on software are also increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats, a panel of experts said at the Satellite 2019 conference here. "The thing that's a challenge, and maybe a bar...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

This image shows a quasar nicknamed the Teacup due to its shape. A quasar is an active galaxy that is powered by material falling into its central supermassive black hole....

His signature landed there, he spoke to the astronauts on its surface and now, 50 years later, his museum is exhibiting the history of his connection to the moon.

As Cyclone Fani strengthened and made landfall over eastern India on May 3, a network of weather satellites kept an eye on the massive storm.

Launch firm iSpace in early June will attempt to become the first Chinese private company to place a satellite in orbit, following failed launches by two competitors. SpaceNews.com

This image shows a quasar nicknamed the Teacup due to its shape. A quasar is an active galaxy that is powered by material falling into its central supermassive black hole. They are extremely luminous objects located at g...

Solving the growing problem of space debris will require everyone who flies rockets and satellites to adhere to sustainable practices, which doesn't always happen. Now there will be a way to recognise those who do.

A SpaceX shipment arrived at the International Space Station on Monday following a weekend launch.

Two teams working independently have looked at the possibility of an exomoon circling the exoplanet Kepler-1625b, which orbits the star Kepler-1625. They report little to no evidence supporting its existence. One team, l...

Blast off! MIT made its latest foray into research in space on May 2 via six payloads from the Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, tucked into Blue Origin's New Shepard reusable space vehicle that took off from a lau...

Among Elon Musk's many plans for the future, one of the more ambitious has been the creation of a constellation of satellites that will offer broadband internet access to the entire world. Known as "Starlink," the compan...