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NASA representatives participated in a media teleconference this morning to discuss the June 28, 2014 near-space test flight of the agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), which occurred off the coast of the ...

June 21, the day of the northern summer solstice, has much more than 15 hours of sunlight if the extensive twilight periods around dusk and dawn are taken into account.

The satellite is destined for an orbit 438 miles above Earth and will use a spectrometer to measure CO2 concentrations in the air 24 times per second --

Alien hunter Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, on the plausibility of Hollywood's ET storylines.

A new pair of running shoes may help you run a personal best, but a different kind of shoe could help spacefarers stay fit.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California tomorrow, July 1, at 2:56 a.m. PDT (5:56 a.m. E...

During the Friendship 7 mission, John Glenn experiences weightlessness.

An ESA bid-evaluation team is expected to deliver its judgment by July 5 on two different designs for a next-generation Ariane 6 rocket.

Lockheed Martin has reached an agreement to acquire Zeta Associates Inc., a company which processes and collects data from space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors for the U.S. defense and intell...

Are you ready for 2015? On July 14th, 2015 -- just a little over a year from now -- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft with perform its historic flyby of Pluto and its retinue of moons. Flying just 10,000 kilometres from the...

We’re spoiled, don’t you know? It was 10 years ago today that the Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn’s system, and it has been busily beaming back pictures of the ringed planet and its (many) moons ever since. We’...

A fifth force may exist that disrupts the predictions general relativity makes outside our own galaxy, on cosmic-length scales. University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist, Bhuvnesh Jain, says the nature of gravity is the ...

Lose a soccer game and lose your hair. That’s apparently the deal that American astronauts made on the International Space Station last week, as commander Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman both were shaved bald after the ...

Space industry veteran Ron Jones is waging a social media campaign to revive an idea he initially conceived of in the mid-1980s: to publish a 100-year plan for human space exploration.

Feeling thirsty? If you could somehow capture the water vapor from Rosetta’s comet, you would have the equivalent of two water glasses every second. That’s more than scientists expected given that Comet 67P/Churyumov...

The Scorpius constellation is easy to find by its reddish star: Antares (heart of the scorpion). To its west, the M4 "Cat's Eye" globular cluster can be found. To the east, a group of stars form the Teapot asterism.

SETI is stepping up its search for alien lifeforms on far off worlds. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program recently announced two new methods to search for signals that could come from life on othe...

"If there is sufficient energy pumped into Titan's atmosphere and surface from the sun, then it is possible that this would this would spawn evolution of life forms that take advantage of the energy source," said Howard ...

ESA has selected the Athena advanced telescope for high-energy astrophysics as its second 'Large-class' science mission.

NASA has exercised the third option of its Technology, Engineering, and Aerospace Mission Support (TEAMS) 2 contract with Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. (AMA) of Hampton, Virginia.

NASA's aerospace industry partners are taking their designs and operational plans for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) through a series of comprehensive tests, evaluations and review boards this summer as they ...

Over the coming month the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission will fire its main engines no less than eight times to tweak its interplanetary intercept course with Comet... --