Rosetta comet mission: Landing site named ‘Agilkia’
The landing site on a comet to be targeted by Europe's Philae robot on 12 November has been named "Agilkia" following a public competition. (more…)
One dead in SpaceShipTwo test flight crash
SpaceShipTwo, the Virgin Galactic space plane, has crashed east of Mojave, according to the director of the Mojave Air and Space Port Stu Witt. The...
Secret U.S. Space Plane To Land After 22 Months In Orbit
This much we know: It's not a bird and it's not exactly a plane. Beyond that, the U.S. Air Force holds all the answers. The...
NASA Lunar Mission wins 2014 Popular Mechanics Award
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission has received the Popular Mechanics 2014 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The 10th...
Northrop Grumman Developing XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Design for DARPA
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is developing a preliminary design and flight demonstration plan for the Defense Advanced Research...
Video: NASA Orion Parachute test is delayed. Live at 11:30am ET
National Aeronautical Space Administration, (NASA) Orion Operational Update: The parachute test is delayed one hour, 5 minutes. We will go live now at 11:30am ET....
A planet past Pluto? Astronomers redefine the solar system’s edge
Space is a very large place, however our little corner of the universe just got a little more crowded. (more…)
China launches first moon rover, the ‘Jade Rabbit’
China launched its first rover mission to the moon Monday, sending a robotic craft named Jade Rabbit to trundle across the lunar landscape, examine its...
Your future ultra-fast internet connection just launched into space
Elon Musk’s commercial space company, SpaceX, has just launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit carrying a Canadian Space Agency satellite, CASSIOPE. Part of the...
Tsunami seen on Sun’s surface
Two satellites have seen "tsunami" spreading on the surface of the Sun after a release of matter into space called a coronal mass ejection (CME). ...