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L-3's Coleman Aerospace division won a $74 million contract from the MDA to develop and manufacture medium-range ballistic missile targets.

Star-Craving Mad: Tales from a Traveling Astronomer [More] --

An international trio of astronauts on Thursday took a Soyuz space capsule on a rare trip around the International Space Station in preparation for the arrival of a new crew next week.

A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy, NGC 3576 is located about 9,000 light years from Earth....

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A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy, NGC 3576 is located about 9,000 light years from Earth....

European scientists are studying plans for the Athena+ X-ray space telescope, an observatory that would launch by 2028 to fill in gaps in X-ray astronomy observations.

Host Mat Kaplan will be joined by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bruce Betts and Emily Lakdawalla for this special live event.

You can expect to see Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn this November with only an average telescope.

This animation is cool! It's not an official outreach product, just the hard work of a space enthusiast excited about the upcoming launch of Chang'e 3.

Depending on your location, you might be able to see a total ecplise or an annular eclipse on November 3rd, 2013 during a rare hybrid solar eclipse.

Here are some tips on how to safely photograph the solar eclipse of Nov. 3, 2013.

Richard Feynman was probably one of the very few true individualists in the history of physics (Image: Telegraph) Ricardo Heras has a well-written and thought provoking essay in Physics Today in... --

As ULA prepares for a busy launch calendar in 2015 and 2016, the company's main rocket assembly facility is operating at the highest capacity in its history.

As ULA prepares for a busy launch calendar in 2015 and 2016, the company's main rocket assembly facility is operating at the highest capacity in its history.

DigitalGlobe also reiterated its call for a relaxation of regulations that limit the sharpness of images it can provide on the open market.

Candy! Candy corn? What exactly is candy corn?! This week’s picks points you to the answer as well as to some super science writing filled with dolphins, octopuses, zombies, rhinos, corals and,... --

CSA hopes to start work on a new polar-orbiting communications and weather satellite system as soon as November 2016.

The change in the tilt of the magnetic field of a pulsar, in this case, the one in the famous Crab Nebula, has been observed for the first time.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

It all started with the Big Bang. The space-time continuum seemed to condense in Alhambra, Calif., on Oct. 20 as Gallery Nucleus opened its popular new exhibit, "The Physics of Friendship: A Tribute to the Big Bang Theor...

Science@NASA: As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are listening for "interstellar music" to learn more about conditions outside the heliosphere.