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Unlike the first lawsuit, in which SSL and its then-owner, Loral Space and Communications of New York, were both named, the second is aimed solely at SSL.

You all must know by now that Joanne Manaster and I are suckers for excellent science music video parodies. This one, by the folks at UCSD Neuroscience, is our latest favourite. Set to the tune of... --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project received confirmation from Mars Sunday that the Curiosity rover has successfully transitioned back into nominal surface operation...

Yves Rossy, an ex-pilot, has flown over Mt. Fuji, using his own invented jetpack.

XS-1 aims to develop a reusable first stage -- DARPA is open to winged and nonwinged designs -- that could carry an expendable upper stage capable of placing payloads weighing up to 1,800 kilograms into orbit.

It took months of work (and no wonder) but the wait was worth it: here is Cassini's spectacular view of Saturn, captured on July 19, 2013, as Cassini passed through Saturn's shadow. If you're a little confused by the ima...

Major contractors for the SLS heavy-lift rocket NASA is building for astronaut missions beyond Earth orbit joined the agency's top human-spaceflight official here to pitch the multibillion-dollar launcher as a jack-of-al...

The sun's sister stars may be far more numerous than scientists had previously thought.

An asteroid or comet smashing into the surface of a planet can spell doom for living creatures, but if the impact isn't large enough to completely decimate a planet's inhabitants, then the crater can ultimately provide a...

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world's leading space technology companies, will launch the first satellite designed and built by high school students into Earth orbit aboard a Minotaur I rocket next...

It's a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy of second-growth conifers. The tree cover is dense here, and little ligh...

A telescope in Chile has captured the most detailed views ever of odd clouds of interstellar dust that are being sculpted into strange shapes by the wind from nearby stars.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this natural-color portrait on July 19, 2013, which is the first image to show Saturn, its moons and rings, plus Earth, Venus and Mars, all together. Cassini does not attempt many images of...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA and NOAA scientists have developed a new technique for monitoring ice cover on the Great Lakes that's so accurate it can spot the track of an icebreaker -- even at...

From a NASA spacecraft Mars today looks like a dead, rusted hulk of a world . But, billions of years ago when the planets of our solar system were still young, it was a very different world. Liquid water flowed...

The former tropical storm known as 30W that moved from the western North Pacific Ocean basin into the northern Indian Ocean appears to be ramping up for a short stint at depression status again. NASA's TRMM satellite not...

This image features several craters near the eastern edge of the Caloris basin. The larger craters have excavated low reflectance material, and both have hollows forming within their floors....

Scientists found evidence of nickel and iron in the superfast jets emitted by a relatively small black hole, suggesting that "normal" matter plays a bigger role in these enigmatic structures than does exotic antimatter.

An international team of astronomers has answered a long standing question about the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes, in research published today in prestigious journal Nature.

ESA Space Science: Astronomers studying a black hole in our Galaxy with ESA's XMM-Newton observatory have made a surprising discovery about the cocktail of particles that are ejected from its surroundings.

Apart from Typhoon Haiyan, which has devastated the Philippines, it's been an average year for tropical cyclones, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday in its annual climate report.

NASA Breaking News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Wednesday hailed the success of the agency's public-private partnership with American companies to resupply the International Space Station and announced the next pha...