Space News

At the top of Everest, where the ground juts up toward space, the highest-altitude weather stations are now taking stock of our changing planet.

A decades-long dispute over how much carbon, nitrogen and oxygen lie within our closest star has implications for the entire universe --

When NASA's new Perseverance Martian rover launches in a little over a month it will have a small robotic stow-away on board. Ingenuity is a small helicopter, with a fuselage about the size of a softball and two extendin...

The launch of NASA's next Mars rover mission has been delayed to no earlier than July 30 because of a launch vehicle processing issue, the latest in a series of slips that have now used up nearly half of the available la...

ESA's Gaia space observatory is an ambitious mission to construct a three-dimensional map of our galaxy by making high-precision measurements of over one billion stars. However, on its journey to map distant suns, Gaia i...

NASA has delayed the launch of its Mars rover Perseverance again, this time to no earlier than July 30, due to rocket preparation delays.

Through simulations of a dying star, a team of theoretical physics researchers have found the evolutionary origin and the maximum mass of black holes which are discovered by the detection of gravitational waves.

The surviving core of a gas giant has been diskovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the interior of a planet.

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk today (July 1), and you can watch it live online.

Astronauts performed their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station.

Betelgeuse's weird recent dimming was caused by starspots that temporarily covered at least half of the red supergiant's surface, a new study suggests.

(Cranfield University) An all-female crew will visit the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah aiming to fill the data gap on women's performance in space exploration. Six engineers, geologists and scientists, all under 2...

The European Space Agency on July 1 awarded 2.5 billion euros in development contracts for six new Earth-observation missions under the Copernicus remote-sensing satellite program. SpaceNews.com

We speak to an astronomer who spends his day studying the motions of ancient asteroids as they roam around the Solar System. If one of them poses a threat, he'll be one of the first to know, and would provide us with the...

NASA has delayed the launch of its newest Mars rover yet again--to the end of July at the earliest--this time for a rocket issue.

Ball Aerospace won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2.32 million for weather satellite and instrument design studies. SpaceNews.com

A committee charged with giving the U.S. government advice on space-based navigation services concluded that the FCC's approval of Ligado's 5G network is a "high-risk" decision that jeopardizes GPS services. SpaceNews.co...

NASA is about to fly a rotorcraft on another planet for the first time. And for the engineers who built the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, it's a Wright brothers moment.

Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon; it keeps our planet's axis of rotation stable, which controls seasons and regulates our climate. However, there has been considerable debate over how the Moon was for...

Two astronauts completed the second-to-last set of battery replacements outside of the International Space Station, advancing a multi-year project to upgrade the power system for the orbiting lab.

Astronomers have spotted the exposed core of a massive alien planet, an unprecedented find that could shed considerable light on planet formation, evolution and diversity.

"Kerbal Space Program" launches into the ESA frontier today (July 1) with "Shared Horizons" and scientists are thrilled.