Space News

As NASA is scrambling to land astronauts on the moon by 2024, the agency chief reminded employees today (June 10) that Mars -- not the moon -- is the agency's ultimate destination.

Clusters of galaxies hold the prestigious title of "largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe," which is no small feat.

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers discovered an exoplanet orbiting one of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. Spurred on b...

One of the largest craters in the Solar System is on our Moon. It’s called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin and it’s 2,500 km (1,600 mi) in diameter and 13 km (8.1 mi) deep. A new study says that the basin may conta...

Vera Rubin's discoveries showed that our universe is much more mysterious than anyone imagined.

SpaceX will launch three next-generation Earth-observing satellites for the Canadian Space Agency tomorrow (June 12), and you can watch the liftoff live.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made one of his most famous predictions: that black holes eventually evaporate entirely.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Let’s move to another continent this week, and look at the astronomy that was going on in southern Africa in ancient times. We usually record Astronomy Cast every Friday at 3:00 pm EST / 12:00 pm PST / 20:00 PM UTC. Yo...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will be joined at 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 12, by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and author Margot Lee Shetterly for the renaming of the street in...

Three Expedition 59 crewmembers are getting ready to end their stay at the International Space Station after six and a half months in space. Meanwhile, mission scientists continue exploring how microgravity impacts the h...

Next year, NASA will launch a new Mars rover, one that is equipped to determine whether the Red Planet ever hosted life -- but the craft could also determine how violently Martian volcanoes erupted.

Robotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon - part of the agency's broader Moon to Mars exploration approach.

In the age of social media, no new experience goes undocumented. On Earth, we fill our camera rolls with weekends away, social events and time spent with family and friends. But just imagine how many photos you might tak...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Astronaut photos from space help cities get smarter

NASA's twin E-TBEx CubeSats--short for Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment--are scheduled to launch in June 2019 aboard the Department of Defense's Space Test Program-2 launch. The launch includes a total of 24 satellites ...

NASA's Space Environment Testbeds, or SET, will launch in June 2019 on its mission to study how to better protect satellites in space. SET will get a ride to space on a U.S. Air Force Research Lab spacecraft aboard a Spa...

The combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), and the HARPS-N spectrograph on the National Galileo Telescope (TNG) at the Roque de los Muc...

In a small, square room walled by four feet of concrete, the air smells as if a lightning storm just passed through--crisp and acrid, like cleaning supplies. Outside, that's the smell of lightning ripping apart oxygen in...

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project. The new investigation, published in the journal M...

An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests the large dome found on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres is made of slurry--a mix of salty brine and solid particles. In their paper published in...

A team of researchers from Australia, Switzerland and Japan has found evidence suggesting that the asteroid Vesta was stuck by a very large rock approximately 4.5 billion years ago. In their paper published in the journa...