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A planned new generation of polar-orbiting U.S. military weather satellites could be small enough to launch on Minotaur rockets, as opposed to the much larger -- and far more expensive -- Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets.

The contract is for the DARPA's ALASA program, which is intended to field a system to launch satellites weighing up to 45 kilograms into low Earth orbit for as low as $1 million each.

A look at the U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane, which has flown three secret, long-duration missions in Earth orbit to date.

Dog lovers, look up! Skywatchers can now spot four canine constellations prowling the evening sky as darkness falls.

Samer Halawi said Thuraya likely will decide this year on a partnership strategy -- perhaps with an FSS operator with Atlantic Ocean coverage -- to give Thuraya global reach.

The Opportunity rover on Mars has gotten a 70% boost in power over the past few weeks. A good portion of that comes from the fact that its springtime in Mars' southern hemisphere where Oppy now sits along the western rim...

Some arm faults caused delays on Curiosity's approach to Kimberley, but the rover is now parked at its north edge, examining the "striated unit" up close with arm-mounted instruments.

From spy satellites and missile defense to robot space planes and orbital platforms, get the latest news and views on military space technology.

Twice in the past two weeks the Mars rover Opportunity has experienced "cleaning events" that have blown some of the rusty powder away, allowing more sunlight to fall on the solar arrays, giving the six-wheeled rover a s...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory could be an innovation as significant as the telescope or microscope. It's also a story of creative, passionate, motivated people striving to understand the very fa...

HR 5171, the brightest star just below the center of this stunning space wallpaper, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy.

European space experts said on Friday they had successfully reawakened a fridge-sized robot designed to make the first-ever spacecraft landing on a comet.

ICE has been on a journey for over 30 years around our sun. While the owner has decided not to bring the ship back to its home port, a group of radio amateurs tries to find out how ICE is doing.

The short fan film, called "Star Trek: Prelude To Axanar," takes place decades before the famous exploits of Captain James T. Kirk and his Enterprise crew.

Here’s a pretty picture for your Friday: a mosaic of Mastcam images acquired by Curiosity on mission Sol 582, also known to us Earthlings as Thursday, March 27, 2014. Barsoom sure looks lovely this time of year! (...)R...

India's Insat 3E telecommunications satellite failed in orbit the week of March 26.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Dawn receives prestigious National Air and Space Museum Trophy.

Is there truly anything new under the Sun? Well, when it comes to amateur astronomy, many observers are branching out beyond the optical. And while it's true that you can't carry out infrared or X-ray astronomy from your...

Set phasers to stunned: A Kickstarter campaign for the Trek fan film 'Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar' has quintupled its original $10,000 goal. As of March 28, the project raised $58,362 to fund the fan film by veteran sci...

The very first prediction of the existence of a black hole occured in the late 1790's, when John Michell of England and Pierre-Simon Laplace of France, using Newton's Laws, independently suggested the existence of an "in...

Ever wanted to be part of a Star Trek movie? A Kickstarter offering lets you join the team making an independent film about the Battle of Axanar - won by Starfleet Captain Garth - about 21 years before the original 'Star...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Inside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked tirelessly to install another essential part of the James Webb Space Tel...