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Following the speed boosting slingshot of Earth on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that sent NASA's Juno orbiter hurtling towards Jupiter, the probe has successfully transmitted back data and the very first flyby images despite unexp...

As we reported yesterday, the latest data on Comet ISON indicates there is some encouraging news as far as the Comet surviving perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. While some are all doom and gloom about the pote...

Editor’s note: The following is the introduction to a special e-publication called Our Solar System (click the link to see a table of contents). Published earlier this year, the collection... --

The Sunjammer Mission will use a huge solar sail to fly through the solar system. See photos and images of how the Sunjammer solar sail works.

Sir Richard Branson and George Whitesides talk about the Space tourism company's future at the largest gathering of future astronauts to date. The 'Your Flight DNA' event was hosted at Mojave Air and Space Port.

The fall night sky in the Northern Hemisphere brings a veritable harvest of amazing celestial sights and this year is no different, but you do need to know when to look up to see them. Two eclipses, four meteor showers, ...

John Graves, one person with a ticket to space on a flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, explains why he bought a flight to space.

The announcement comes three days after the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation pulled the plug on this year's event, which had been scheduled for Oct. 13-16 in the same Tampa venue, due to the U.S. government shutdo...

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The Air Force has awarded the two final preproduction contracts, worth about $4.6 million combined, for a hotly contested military satellite communications terminal project.

Some day, human explorers will land a spacecraft on the surface of Europa, Enceladus, Titan, or some other icy world and investiget first-hand the secrets hidden beneath its frozen surface. When that day comes — and it...

The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite launched in 2009 to study the Earth's gravity. See images of and from GOCE, the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer.

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The European Space Agency's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE for short, is nearly out of fuel and will make a nosedive to Earth this month after more than four successful years studying ...

Chris Hadfield loved spacewalking. That was clear in a past interview he did for Universe Today: It is like coming around a corner and seeing the most magnificent sunset of your life, from one horizon to the other where ...

The International Space Station silently orbits the Earth, black of space above, blue of ocean below. An astronaut floats in the cupola, a dome of glass and steel that faces the planet underneath, smiling to himself as h...

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: Small companies have been showing off a range of new applications of space technologies to potential investors.

One year and nearly 3 million visitors later, NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour is the focus of a celebration at its Los Angeles museum home.

Rosetta's decade long trip to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko out near the orbit of Jupiter is nearly over and in 100 days time the spacecraft will be woken from it's deep-space hibernation.

The Sunjammer spacecraft will use a massive solar sail as propulsion in space on a mission to monitor the sun, test out the technology, and inspire people and businesses around the world with an innovative space technolo...

In November 2014, NASA will launch the Sunjammer with the worlds largest solar sail, which will unfurl from the compact spacecraft.

In space during the joint Russian/American docking mission known as the ASTP the Apollo Commander and the Soyuz Commander make their historic handshake.