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This spacewalk is not related to a recent pair of spacewalks by two NASA astronauts to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump...

For all you Earth observation geeks out there, we have some good news — two Russian astronauts are going to install a camera on Friday (Dec. 27) that will beam live images of Earth back to your browser. The UrtheCast c...

See photos of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as they worked to install commercial Earth-watching cameras on the International Space Station on Dec. 27, 2013.

I put down down the snow shovel to give my back a rest yesterday evening and couldn’t believe what I saw. Or didn’t see. Where was Venus? (...)Read the rest of Venus Slip-Slides Away – Catch it While You Can! (501 ...

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The satellite, to view galaxy-emitted X-rays in an attempt to unlock the secrets of so-called dark energy, a force believed to propel objects away from one another, had been previously expected to be launched next year.

The standalone plan would avoid a sale to an entity owned by Charlie Ergen, chairman of LightSquared rival Dish Network Corp.

Lowell Observatory's iconic Clark Telescope is about to undergo a much-needed facelift. After 117 years of constant use, the instrument will be closed for more than a year as engineers and technicians carefully remove te...

The malfunction forced NASA to temporarily deactivate some science equipment and postpone Orbital's resupply mission to allow spacewalking astronauts to to replace the faulty hardware.

Much of the world was watching the Chang'e 3 landing in northern Mare Imbrium at 13:10 UTC Dec. 14, 2013. NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was watching too....

Environmental research and weather forecasting are about to get a significant technology boost as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to launch a new satellite in February....

That long-delayed contract award is now expected in April.

New rover design using rods and cables may hold the key to small, light-weight and low-cost missions.

A recent naked-eye visible nova that erupted the first week in December 2013 is still showing its stuff, and this new "hot off the press" image from Rolf Wahl Olsen in New Zealand reveals its unusual color. "I managed to...

In the latest episode of 'Space To Ground, NASA's Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters talks about spacewalks to repair the stations cooling system and add Earth-observing cameras to the stations exterior. Also, how to spot the ISS...

The rocket's Breeze-M upper stage released the Express-AM5 into the planned transfer orbit some five hours and 12 minutes after liftoff.

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will deploy its Philae lander to land on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in Nov. 2014. Its expected to deliver for several weeks to several months, depending on how long it takes the solar cells ...

"Until Cassini arrived at Saturn, we didn't know about the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, the active drama of Enceladus' jets, and the intricate patterns at Saturn's poles," said Linda Spilker, the Cassini project scientist...

If you've been outside after sunset and looked to the southwest, you can't have missed the astonishingly bright beacon glowing over the horizon. That's Venus, the third brightest natural object in the sky (the Internatio...

The glorious pyrotechnics of the "Northern Lights" get their start about 93 million miles away, on the sun. An aurora borealis (aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere) is precipitated by explosions on the surface of...

(Phys.org) --Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the earth's orbit are called near Earth objects. Some of them are old, dating from the origins of the solar system about four and one-half billion years...

The completion of the 30-day Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration or LLCD mission has revealed that the possibility of expanding broadband capabilities in space using laser communications is as bright as expected....