Every year, NASA release Spinoff, a publication produced by the Technology Transfer Program that shows how NASA technology has benefits here on Earth.
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SpaceX is postponing the resumption of launches for their Falcon 9 rocket into early January 2017 as they continue to deal with the fallout from the catastrophic launch pad explosion in Florida that destroyed a Falcon 9 during preflight test operations three months ago.
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A comprehensive guide to astronomical oppositions, occultations, eclipses, comets and more for 2017.
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A new study produced by an international team of researchers shows that Dark Matter may be more smoothly distributed than previously thought
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It turns out, that famous question of "How do you go to the bathroom in space?" is not so easy to answer. At least, not when it comes to 'going' -- repeatedly -- in your spacesuit, when you may have been wearing it continually for six days or more.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - The highest-capacity US Air Force communications system thundered to orbit during a fabulous nighttime blastoff from the Florida Space Coast, Wednesday evening offering a picture perfect spectacle in addition to a significant boost to military point to point communications.
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Trump's recent meeting with Al Gore in New York has fueled speculation about the future of NASAs Earth science missions, which are demonstrably vital to the nation
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Earth's familiar gravity - which is 9.8 m/s², or 1 g - is both essential to life as we it, and an impediment to us becoming a true space-faring species!
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The Cassini mission has begun its final phase and has completed its first ring-grazing orbit around Saturn.
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Buzz Aldrin - the second man to walk on the Moon - is recovering nicely today in a New Zealand hospital after an emergency medical evacuation cut short his record setting Antarctic expedition as the oldest man to reach the South Pole - which Team Buzz lightheartly noted would make him "insufferable" !
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The ESO has released spectral data obtained by the Very Large Telescope, which studied a distant qausar to determine how electromagnetism works.
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Only three months after the catastrophic launch pad explosion of their commercial Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, SpaceX has set Dec. 16 as the date for the boosters 'Return to Flight' launch from California with the first batch of Iridium's next-generation communications satellites.
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The weather on Venus is incredibly hostile, characterized by extreme temperatures, acid rain, lightning storms and powerful winds.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - An unmanned Russian Progress resupply ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) was lost shortly after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday when its Soyuz booster suffered a catastrophic anomaly in the third stage, and the craft and its contents were totally destroyed.
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The Asteroid Belt, which rests between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, orbits our Sun at a distance of 3.2 to 4.2 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun
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In the northern sky, bordered by Ursa Major and Boötes, lies the small constellation of Canes Venatici, one of the 88 constellations recognized by the IAU.
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According to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, all matter is composed is hadrons (which are made up of elementary particles) and leptons, which are elementary particles themselves.
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Sky Canvas plans to launch a colorful artificial meteor shower barrage via micro-satellite.
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space, blazing a trail for all the female astronauts and cosmonauts who have since followed.
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Not all stars are alone. Some come in pairs and more. And when there are multiple stars in a system, watch the cosmic sparks fly.
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A new study released by the Radiological Society of North America has determined why astronauts who take part in long-duration missions experience problems with their eyesight.
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Radar mapping of San Francisco's Bay Area has verified the slow sinking of a luxury skyscraper.
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For decades, astronomers have believed that a supermassive black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. And ongoing research has shown that it is not alone!
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Located in the direction of the Sagittarius Constellation, roughly17,900 light-years from Earth, lies the globular cluster known as Messier 28.
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Using the same kind of light and detection ranging (lidar) technology as the OSIRIS-REx missions, archaeologists are uncovering secrets of Earth's distant past.
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After months of research, the IAUs Working Group on Star Names has released a catalog that restored the assigned traditional names to 227 stars
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The Cydonia region of Mars has been the subject of scientific and popular curiosity for decades, thanks mainly to its famous "Face of Mars".
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Investigators have made progress into determining the cause of the Schiaparelli accident, which appears to be due to a temporary error with one of the on-board instruments.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The fire and fury of the mighty Atlas V got the gorgeous NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory to geostationary orbit just days ago - as a 'Thanksgiving' present to all the people of Earth through the combined efforts of the government/industry/university science and engineering teams of hard working folks who made it possible.
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We've been so busy wondering how we'll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we'll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media? Who's responsible to craft a response?
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Located beneath the border between France and Switzerland is the CERN Particle Accelerator, the largest instrument of its kind in the world.
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Jupiter's largest moons - aka. the Galilean Moons - could one day be colonized, providing humanity with limitless resources and incredible opportunities for research.
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The slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface temperature between 1998 and 2013 wasn't a slowdown at all. The oceans have warmed instead.
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You know what would be exciting? Finding life on Mars. What is the best evidence we've seen for life on the Red Planet?
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Upon departing the ISS after a month-long stay, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 mission began conducting a controlled fire experiment... in space!
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Located approximately 1,360 light years from Earth in the direction of the Vulpecula constellation, the Dumbbell Nebula is a beautiful thing to behold!
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