Space News

NASA's Curiosity rover has left plenty of marks on Mars over the past nine-plus years, and the Red Planet is returning the favor.

Lockheed Martin's space division has won a NASA contract to build the rocket that will return the first Mars rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, the US space agency said Monday.

Working everywhere from operating rooms to NASA research facilities, these pioneers propelled us into the future.

E-Space, the Greg Wyler-led startup behind Rwanda's September filing for a constellation of 300,000 satellites, said Feb. 7 it has raised $50 million to fund the launch of two sets of test satellites this year. The post ...

The Space Systems Command issued a request for information on industry capabilities to combat cyber attacks and protect critical networks during wartime. The post Space Force soliciting industry ideas for thwarting cyber...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has to stay super cool to observe the cosmos. How does it beat the heat? Black paint.

New research reveals why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue. The post Why are Neptune and Uranus Different Colors? appeared first on Universe Today.

The rover topped 800 feet with a self-drive function.

A data processor launched to orbit by the Space Development Agency has performed an early demonstration of autonomous data fusion in space. The post Space Development Agency experiment demonstrates on-orbit data processi...

The Moon has orbited Earth since the Solar System’s early days. Anyone who’s ever spent time at the ocean can’t fail to notice the Moon’s effect. The Moon drives the tides even in the world’s most remote inlets...

Could a laser send a spacecraft to Mars? That's a proposed mission from a group at McGill University, designed to meet a solicitation from NASA. The laser, a 10-meter wide array on Earth, would heat hydrogen plasma in a ...

Astronomers from Italy and Spain have observed a binary system known as HD 189733, using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite. Results of the observational campaign, published January 28 on arXiv.org, deliver essential information...

The Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions measure and image our planet in different ways to return a wealth of complementary information so that we can understand and track how our world is changing, and how to better m...

Lockheed Martin will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle, a small rocket that will launch pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now.

Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the center, with illuminated gas in between. But our eyes can only glimpse the surface of what holds our galaxy together. A...

In recent decades, planetary scientists have developed ample evidence indicating that Mars was home to a relatively thick atmosphere and hosted liquid water on its surface during the Noachian, around 4 billion years ago....

If you've ever tried to star gaze in a residential or urban area, you know that a streetlight or even the lights from a nearby town can greatly interfere with your ability to identify Orion's Belt and see a rare comet or...

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be sure to find your center with today’s topic: eccentricity! Eccentricity is a measure of how circular an orbit is. An eccentr...

The Moon is sure to be a hotspot of economic activity as human commercial endeavors start to expand into space. Not only is it a ball of resources with a relatively small gravity well, but it also happens to be our neare...

A team of researchers with the Paris observatory and Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC, has confirmed that comet 2014 UN271 is the largest comet ever observed. They published a paper describing their findings ...

The fate of the Milky Way - and many others - is played out in a slow but surprisingly violent cosmic dance.

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build a small rocket that will transport samples collected by the Perseverance rover into orbit around Mars. The post Lockheed Martin wins contract to build rocket for Mars Sample Ret...