Space News

Rocket Lab USA won two contracts worth $14 million to provide separation systems for Space Development Agency satellites. The post Rocket Lab wins $14 million in contracts to supply hardware for U.S. military satellites ...

If space is the final frontier, it's food that will get us there in good shape, and UBC researchers are making sure that our food will be up to the task.

The Space Development Agency remains optimistic it will launch next month the first satellites of a planned mesh network of sensors and communications nodes in low Earth orbit The post Space Development Agency still hopi...

A model of exotic dark matter suggests that the first stars may have formed not as individuals, but as tiny pockets embedded in gigantic, pancake-like sheets.

NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force Col. Bob Behnken is retiring from NASA after 22 years of service. His last day with the agency is Friday, Nov. 11.

A new satellite image shows that the world's largest iceberg, A-76A, has entered the Drake Passage.

NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 10:30 a.m. EST (7:30 a.m. PST) Nov. 14, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topograph...

A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed a schoolteacher and six others.

One the largest pieces of NASA's fallen space shuttle Challenger has been discovered on the ocean floor by a TV documentary team searching for a downed World War II-era aircraft for The History Channel.

ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero discovers she has a fan in this week's episode, entitled "Nobody's Listening!"

NASA has delivered a retroreflector array to ESA that will allow the Lunar Pathfinder mission to be pinpointed by laser ranging stations back on Earth as it orbits the moon. Such centimeter level laser measurements will ...

The world will warm beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set out to avoid the worst consequences of climate change but can cool back down if timely action is taken, scientists say.

Although bad weather and technical issues forced NASA to postpone its August and September launch attempts for Artemis I--an uncrewed space mission that will voyage around the moon and back--the space agency is looking t...

LOFTID soared into space and back again Thursday (Nov. 10), safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on a crucial test of aeroshell technology for eventual human Mars missions.

Engineers with the James Webb Space Telescope have figured out a way to work around a friction issue that arose with the telescopes' Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The team is now planning to resume observations with th...

Satellite antenna developer NXT Communications Corp.'s equipment, property, and other collateral are being auctioned off amid production delays that have left L3Harris Technologies in the lurch. The post Antenna develope...

Going to the moon was the first step. Staying there is the next ambition.

An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too close. The shredding of the star, known as a "tidal disruption event...

Video: 00:05:17 At the Thales Alenia Space test facility in Cannes, France, the massive door of the thermal vacuum chamber was opened after a month of rigorous testing of ESA's Euclid mission to explore the dark Universe...

A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently completed a deep Q-band line scanning survey of the Orion Kleinmann-Low Nebula (Orion KL) using the Tianma...

For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug. 27.

A satellite intended to improve weather forecasting and an experimental inflatable heat shield to protect spacecraft entering atmospheres were launched into space from California on Thursday.