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ULA and RD-Amross want a federal judge to throw out an Orbital antitrust lawsuit.

The crescent moon and Mars are visible close together just above the eastern horizon on these late November mornings. The Red Planet is dim now but will brighten considerably by next spring, when it will be much closer t...

If you are still wondering what gift to get the astronauts living on the International Space Station this holiday season (and if not, why not?), you can rule out a certain bestselling book.

American Astronomical Society: The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) Discovery Portal is now available online. MAST is home to more than 15 missions, including Hubble, Kepler, Swift, and XMM-Newton, and many o...

(Phys.org) --Think you can figure out a way to unlock one of the biggest secrets of the universe? The recently launched third Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing challenge (GREAT3) is giving researchers the opportunit...

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson said his company Virgin Galactic is now accepting the digital-only currency bitcoin for its commercial spaceflights aboard SpaceShipTwo.

The climb-down from the previous ambition reflects the difficulty that European Union governments have in placing their most-sensitive communications needs into a group format.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The robotic arm lifts and lowers a golden James Webb Space Telescope flight spare primary mirror segment onto a test piece of backplane at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbe...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: In the stockroom of our cosmos, black holes come in size small and large. NASA's NuSTAR is helping to find our more about why medium-sized black holes are missing.

Old Space (and this is still the dreamers talking) is slow, bureaucratic, government-directed, completely top-down.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: What do you do when a problem is too hard to solve? Ask others for help, as astronomers are doing in an innovative competition involving galaxy puzzles.

After making landfall near Darwin on Nov. 24, the remnants of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alessia worked its way over to Australia's Northern Territory where it was seen from NASA's Aqua satellite. Aqua passed over the remnant l...

Tropical cyclone Lehar, located in the Bay of Bengal, continues to gain intensity while heading toward the same area of India where a much weaker tropical cyclone Helen recently came ashore. NASA's TRMM satellite passed ...

This new panorama of the Milky Way by astrophotographer Miguel Claro is really amazing, and you definitely want to click on the image to have access to larger versions! This is an 18-image mosaic taken with a Canon 60Da,...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The latest advanced instrument that will fly on NOAA's next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R known as GOES-R spacecraft is completed and cleared for ins...

The combination of globally distributed computing power and innovative analysis methods proves to be a recipe for success in the search for new pulsars. Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Gravitational Physics...

Imagine that you’re innocently running your computer in pursuit of helping data crunch a huge science project. Then, out of the thousands of machines running the project, yours happens to stumble across a discovery. Th...

The video camera in addition to a still camera and associated hardware will be installed on a movable platform attached to the exterior of the Russian Zvezda service module.

San Francisco-based startup Planet Labs delivered the 28 tiny satellites that will make up its "Flock 1" fleet to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia earlier this month. The constellation is slated to blast off ab...

Life originated as a result of natural processes that exploited early Earth's raw materials. Scientific models of life's origins almost always look to minerals for such essential tasks as the synthesis of life's molecula...

I am heading out to Kitt Peak to join my fellow CIOC-ers Matthew and Casey for perihelion observations of Comet ISON, and I find myself having an early moment of reflection.

On Thanksgiving Day -- Nov. 28, 2013 -- the showy comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) will scream past the surface of the Sun, skimming over the roiling surface of our star at a height of just 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles). ...