Preparations continue for the first K2 campaign in the ecliptic plane … if it is approved, following the 2014 Astrophysics Senior Review of Operating Missions. The vaunted Kepler Spacecraft had…

China;s plucky little Jade Rabbit may not be hopping along any more but it is still alive. After the extremely successful landing and deployment of the Jade Rabbit Rover China…

Technology allows us to put more and more capability in smaller and smaller packages. This week a set of Cubesats was placed into orbit by the ISS. A set of…

(NASA) The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), thundered into space at 1:37 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb….

NASA today added another 715 new worlds to the list of known planets outside our own solar system. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our…

(NASA) – This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from…

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of massive, hot supergiant Kappa Cassiopeiae, or HD 2905a as it speeds through the Milky Way. The star is moving at around 2.5 million mph relative…

In a first ever scientists have measured the rotation of a galaxy by measuring the movement of the stars within it. In the central part of the our neighboring galaxy,…