Space News

Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.

Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.

The upcoming "Star Trek" game rekindles the show's voyage of exploration, but it's also a shoot-em-up title.

Astronaut Sally Ride, the United States' first woman in space, will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House in 2013.

On May 13th, Commander Chris Hadfield returned to his home planet. That's an odd phrase that you'll rarely find outside of fiction, but the Canadian leader of Expedition 35 ended his 5-month stay aboard the International Space Station last week.

But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.

ASTRONAUT Tim Peake has been making headlines this week as it was announced he was going on a six-month mission to the International Space Staion.

An undated handout photo for the European Space Agency shows a computer simulation made by the Institute for Air and Spacesystems at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, of the distribution and movement of space debris at present and in future.

A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launches on the Shenzhou 9 mission, China's first manned space docking flight and first flight of a female astronaut, on June 16, 2012 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The San Antonio Military Medical Center often has VIPs, but Wednesday, SAMMC had an out-of-this-world visit by Commander Chris Cassidy , calling from the International Space Station 260 miles above earth.

NASA has awarded a mechanical engineer a grant worth $125,000 to help him create a 3D printer for food.

On May 20, 2013, a supercell thunderstorm in central Oklahoma spawned a destructive tornado that passed just south of Oklahoma City.

Kiera Wilmot is going to space camp. In late April, the 16-year-old central Florida honor student was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds, leading to her arrest and suspension from school, but authorities dropped criminal charges last week.

The "Dream Chaser" spacecraft is designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station in NASA's post-shuttle era.

A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation.

NASA will host a Google+ Hangout with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23.

Following the experiments on mice and gerbils that were sent to space on the Bion-M bio-satellite in April, the Russian scientists are still planning to launch more space flights with living organisms to find out how space factors will affect animals.

Among the many difficulties of sending people to Mars, the question of what they will eat is not the least of them.

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission.

Editor's note: This guest post was written by Ron Atkins, a life-long supporter of human space exploration and an ardent advocate of "NewSpace" and Commercial Spaceflight.