Space News

Using artificial intelligence could aid in the search for life and detection of nearby asteroids.

Reps. Jim Cooper and Mike Rogers were the original proponents of a space service. It was not Trump's idea. SpaceNews.com

A European Space Agency telescope celebrated 20 years of exploring the secrets of the X-ray universe this week.

When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of sp...

Black holes should be common in our Milky Way galaxy, but their dark nature means only dozens have been discovered to date. Here are a few nearby black holes astronomers know a little about.

Rocket Lab officially opened its new U.S. launch site for business today (Dec. 12) and the U.S. Air Force will be the company's first customer to fly from the complex.

Compounds with noble gases don't form naturally on Earth. But in the interstellar medium, they are helping scientists probe the history of the universe.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

It will be one of the most daunting, complicated and, potentially, scientifically rewarding missions ever undertaken to the red planet.

A new global map of winds on Mars shows "ripple effects" from the extreme terrain below.

Today, a paper published in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local observat...

Image: It's confirmed! ESA is building its fourth deep space antenna- much like the Cebreros dish pictured here- that will ensure upcoming missions like JUICE and the Hera mission have someone to talk to when they get to...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Apparently, that "monster black hole" that researchers found isn't so monstrous after all.

India's workhorse rocket celebrated its 50th flight with a successful launch of 10 satellites, including a spy vehicle.

Spiral galaxies are an iconic form. They’re used in product logos and all sorts of other places. We even live in one. And though it may seem kind of obvious how they get their shape, by rotating, that’s not the case....

With Boba Fett, Bossk, and another familiar face give an eye-opening look at their 'complicated' profession.

The U.S. Air Force will be the first customer for a Rocket Lab Electron launching in 2020 from a new launch site in Virginia, the company announced Dec. 12. SpaceNews.com

Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope aboard the International...

A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as the 1950s to try to detect and analyse objects that have disappeared over time. In the proje...

Kepler Communications on Dec. 11 said it booked 400 kilograms of rideshare capacity with SpaceX in order to launch an unspecified number of its Internet of Things cubesat next year. SpaceNews.com

A newly published study, presented on Dec. 12 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, reveals that a type of Martian aurora originally detected by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is in fact the most common aurora on the...