Space News

A Baltimore native is one of nine candidates to begin astronaut training this summer.

An artist's rendition of SpaceShipTwo as it journeys in suborbital space above Earth.

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station.

The outer-space indie "Moon" puts the alien in alienation. Ever-interesting Sam Rockwell stars as Sam Bell, a contractor running a one-man mining operation.

Inventors, researchers and small business owners hoping to receive a portion of $2.3 billion in federal grants attended the National Institutes of Health's 11th annual Small Business Innovation Research conference.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached its destination just last week , is already showing its stuff.

See moonshadows on Saturn's rings, volcanoes on Earth and Mars and other out-of-this-world imagery from June 2009.

In two studies published in the edition of Science Express, international teams have analyzed gamma-rays from two dozen pulsars, including 16 discovered by Fermi.

An industry team led by The Boeing Co. has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new, ultra-lightweight power generation system for spacecraft.

Written by ITT Sensors to help meteorologists improve short-term forecasts ROCHESTER, N.Y.---ITT Corporation announced today that its latest weather sensors have successfully launched into space.

A knob wedged against a cockpit window in shuttle Atlantis was freed, NASA said Tuesday, giving engineers a chance to look more closely at any damage it caused.

NASA has chosen two Space Camp graduates as part of the nine 2009 inductees into the astronaut corps.

To NASA's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks Wednesday and paved the way for another launch attempt late next week for the delayed mission.

The first Canadian crew member of the International Space Station says his new home is big, but he's learning his way around.

An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies.

The Review Panel on U.S. Human Space Flight has placed photos and information collected in Huntsville on its Web site.

The U.S. and Japanese space agencies have produced a digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than ever.

An Atlas V rocket blasts off the launch pad headed to the moon, carrying a pair of science probes that will scout out potential landing spots for astronauts, Thursday afternoon, June 18, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Summer is the perfect time to see Saturday, the Hubble Space Telescope and even the space station -- all with the naked eye.

Japan has launched Earth observation, communications and weather satellites as well as other space vehicles since it began its space program in the late 1960s.