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This NASA SR-71 completes its first flight at Dryden Flight Research Center.

Robin Biesbroek runs system-level activities for Clean Space, meaning that he takes care of studies focused on the design of a mission for space remediation - part of Clean Space Branch 4: Technologies for Space Debris R...

DARPA expects to spend some $800 million on space programs from 2015 through 2018, an increase of $130 million over what was projected at this time last year.

The May 2013 launch of a Chinese rocket on what Beijing described as a scientific mission may have been a test of an anti-satellite system.

At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Jennifer Scully discussed possible water-carved gullies in an unusual location: within craters on Vesta. Water-carved gullies on Mars I can accept; but on an airless lumpy b...

The four private companies NASA is counting on to develop manned spaceships -- Boeing, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and SpaceX -- are notching the many milestones set by the space agency's commercial crew progr...

Examine the threat of near Earth asteroids and begin exploring the Jupiter System in this video of class 7 of Bruce Betts' Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

Orbiting JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata explains how the International Space Station's water recovery system works.

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page. Fraser Cain on Google+ © Fraser for Universe T...

“This is how we know nature. It is the best idea humans have ever come up with.” - Bill Nye, Science Guy and CEO of The Planetary Society In this latest video from NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, sc...

Thales says it would need a follow-on contract this year to provide maximum cost advantage to Orbital and its customer, NASA.

A 0.81m telescope in northern Italy is well on its way to being wide eyed and shiny thanks to a 2013 Planetary Society Shoemaker NEO Grant, which will enable it to make better near Earth object observations to help prote...

We’re all space geeks at Universe Today and are used to seeing collections of memorabilia, but there’s something about Joe Lennox’s that makes us set our phasers to stunned. Ever since John Glenn first rocketed to ...

SpaceX has confirmed it will target its next cargo mission launch to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, for 10:50 p.m. EDT, Sunday, March 30.

Royal Astronomical Society: The Council and President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have offered unequivocal support to astronomers Dr Hiranya Peiris and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. An article in the Daily Mail su...

The Council and President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have offered unequivocal support to astronomers Dr Hiranya Peiris and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. An article in the Daily Mail suggested that they were selec...

This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light-years away in the constellation of Libra....

This stunning space wallpaper is a color composite of the unusual polar ring galaxy NGC 4650A. The image was created from data from the new MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

WA scientists are using telescopes to drill holes in the universe to unlock how galaxies have evolved.

The director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics talks about the news this week of indirect evidence for gravitational waves and his work to obtain direct evidence --

A new telescope tool for peering into the cosmos and creating three-dimensional views of the universe has passed its first major test at a European observatory in Chile's high desert.

The new infrared picture, known as GLIMPSE360, was compiled by a team led by UW-Madison astronomer Barb Whitney. It is interactive and zoomable, giving users the ability to look through the plane of the galaxy and zero i...