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Over the summer, NASA and JPL tested hardware that they're hoping will give humanity far better access to Mars. That's a hard trip. Mars isn't exactly next door -- well, on a solar system scale, it is, but it's still a ...

(Phys.org) --A pair of researchers, Tal Alexander of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel and Priyamvada Natarajan with Yale University in the U.S. has come up with a possible explanation for the rapid growth of ...

The small-satellite industry is transforming as suppliers who previously focused on providing products and services for individual spacecraft look for ways to profit from the growing number of constellations.

Future Air Force launches will rely on GPS signals for post-liftoff tracking.

We are excited to let all of you know about the newly announced collaboration between the ISEE-3 Reboot Project and Google....

Any space fan that hasn't already purchased a newly released LEGO kit featuring a female astronomer will have to wait a while longer before getting their hands on the toy.

Many skywatchers love August because the ever-reliable Perseid meteor shower peaks mid-month, but unfortunately, this year's usually brilliant meteor display may be spoiled by a bright full moon.

NASA: Kepler News and Features: Two-wheel Kepler officially began conducting science observations on May 30 and performance as have spectacular.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned maneuver of the spacecraft's remaining mission on Saturday, Aug. 9. The maneuver will target Cassini toward an Aug. 21 encounter with Saturn's largest moon, Tita...

Today NASA held a briefing on its recent Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project test. LDSD is a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle which may be used on future planetary missions....

NASA Breaking News: NASA has selected 23 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue the development of innovative technologies that will support future agency mission needs and may also prov...

Now here's something I guarantee you've never seen before: a video of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon showing the two distinctly separate worlds actually in motion around each other! Captured by the st...

Rather than being dead inside, the Moon still has a warm interior that is due to the effect of the Earth’s gravity on our closest major celestial neighbor, a new study says. The results came after looking at results fr...

Feeling dizzy? This is what the view looked like from NASA’s next-generation Mars spacecraft as the flying saucer-shaped vehicle did a test in June. According to the agency, the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD...

At least two former employees of SpaceX have sued the company for compensation following what they say were "mass layoffs" carried out without providing 60 days' notice as required under California labor law.

NASA is already working on 3D printing rocket parts, a pizza maker and Hubble Space Telescope photos, but by the end of next month, a NASA engineer is expected to finish building the first space cameras made almost entir...

NASA has selected 23 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue the development of innovative technologies that will support future agency mission needs and may also prove viable as commerci...

Live streaming will be available for the Aug. 10 lunar flyby of ISEE-3.

After a ten year journey, NASA’s New Horizons mission is still 420 million kilometers from the Pluto system – but that’s close enough to begin to see the orbital dance of an icy... --

Here’s your morning photographic space delight: the International Space Station and the last European automated transfer vehicle (ATV), Georges Lemaître, taken using a camera and 10-inch Newtonian telescope. The photo...

An international team of researchers has found extremely small habitats that increase the potential for life on other planets and moons such as Jupiter's Io and Saturn's Titan, while offering a way to clean up oil spills...

Orbcomm o said the six second-generation satellites it launched on July 14 are proceeding through in-orbit tests and should be in service by September.