Space News

It's brilliant news. In just over a decade, there will be two spacecraft exploring one of the most habitable worlds in the solar system--Jupiter's moon Europa. That's thanks to a recent announcement by NASA that the orbi...

Satellites are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Dorian as it approaches Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands.

For nine years, Made In Space executives and engineers have shared their vision for a future when satellites, solar arrays and large antennas are manufactured in orbit. During an Aug. 26 tour, NASA Administrator Jim Brid...

Dorian might strengthen to a Category 3 Hurricane before hitting Florida.

In a new study, a pair Harvard scientists calculated how often interstellar objects could collide with our Moon, and how we might study them to learn more of what lies beyond our Solar System. The post By Continuously Wa...

Women have long been associated with the moon and it is no wonder, then, that the moon has stimulated some incredible literature by female writers.

NASA has awarded the Flight Dynamics Support Services (FDSS) III contract, a small business set-aside, to OPR, LLC of Beltsville, Maryland, to provide flight dynamics support services to, and related service support for,...

A part of the Orion spacecraft abort system is one step closer to ready following a 30-second "trial by fire."

Is there a more complicated and sophisticated technological engineering project than a spacecraft? Maybe a particle accelerator or a fusion power project. But other than those two, the answer is probably no. Spacecraft l...

To better understand the fundamental nature of space, NASA selected two proposals for a mission that would tag along with the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe that launches in 2024.

SpaceX just completed the second hop test of their Starship Hopper prototype, bringing the company one step closer to full-scale tests and commercial missions to the Moon and Mars! The post SpaceX Starship Hopper Prototy...

Astronomers have never seen a world quite like HR 5183 b before --

Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over! NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission.

Starhopper is passing the test-flight torch to orbital prototypes --

Engineers have joined both halves of the $9.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in March 2021, NASA officials announced today (Aug. 28).

Students in North Carolina will talk live this week with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station.

The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment.

The two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have been connected for the first time

Rather than leaving home young, as expected, stellar 'siblings' prefer to stick together in long-lasting, string-like groups, finds a new study of data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft.

A new study argues that Saturn's interior flows like honey due to its magnetic field, which may help solve the mystery of why the planet's powerful winds stop 8,500km inside the giant gas planet.

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft, SMILE is currently scheduled for launch in 2023. It will be placed in a highly inclined, elliptical orbit around Earth, which will take it as far as 120 000 km from our planet.

NASA is reportedly investigating what could be the first ever alleged crime in space. Astronaut Anne McClain has been accused of accessing her estranged spouse's bank account via the internet while on board the Internati...