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(Phys.org) --NASA scientists using Earth-based radar have produced sharp views of a recently discovered asteroid as it slid silently past our planet. Captured on June 8, 2014, the new views of the object designated "2014...

Earth observation image of the week: multiple ice streams on the southwestern coast of Greenland

More than 300 Chinese space enthusiasts have booked tickets costing nearly $100,000 for a five minute trip to outer space, official media reported Friday.

NASA scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new...

Google continues to push out into space. Now, reports suggest the company has purchased a minority stake of Virgin Galactic to move forward on its extra-Earth endeavors.

Just like eating, drinking and even trying to wash your hair aboard the International Space Station, conducting science experiments in space is not a simple task for astronauts. There are so many more factors for crews t...

Virgin Galactic is reporting progress on creating the world's first commercial spaceline. But fitting all the elements together to handle high-velocity suborbital space travel has proved slow-going.

A 3-D printer intended for the International Space Station has passed its NASA certifications with flying colors--earning the device a trip to space sooner than expected. The next Dragon spacecraft, scheduled to launch i...

The U.S. Air Force turned down an unsolicited bid from SpaceX to launch the service's GPS 3 navigation satellites for $79.9 million each.

It will be a couple of extra weeks before a private group controlling a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft can maneuver it to a better orbit to talk with Earth, its co-leader told Space.com today (June 13).

Two companies vying to build space taxis to fly NASA astronauts to the international space station plan to offer unmanned versions of their vehicles in what is likely to be a heated competition for cargo resupply service...

It’s a lot of speculation right now, but the buzz in a new NASA study is Pluto’s largest moon (Charon) could have a cracked surface. If the New Horizons mission catches these cracks when it whizzes by in 2015, this c...

The World Cup is underway and all around the planet we will be using space technology to watch the action live from Brazil....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING): Using the integral field spectrograph OASIS, at the William Herschel Telescope, combined with the adaptive optics module NAOMI, astronomers obtained optical observations of the FU ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA is launching a new leadership development course this fall to cultivate and support science communicators across the agency.

Let’s just casually look at this image of a galaxy 86 million light-years away from us. In the center of this incredible image is a bright loop that you can see surrounding the heart of the galaxy. That is where stars ...

Comtech said its much-diminished business with the U.S. Army after the loss of the Blue Force Tracking (BFT)-2 contract is nonetheless continuing to generate substantial revenue as the Army pays Comtech to maintain the B...

Regulators are reserving the right to impose some restrictions on commercial sales of data from the company's newest and most capable satellite.

Despite myriad problems in many countries, pockets of excellence thrive in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina --

NASA-funded research found drawbacks to having extroverts on teams in isolated and confined environments --