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After a thorough review of cost and engineering issues, NASA managers formally approved the development of the agency's mammoth heavy lift rocket – the Space Launch System or SLS – which will be the world's most powe...

EFS said its DeOrbiter could salvage the European Galileo satellites in a useless orbit after a failure of a Europeanized Soyuz rocket's Fregat upper stage.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A JPL-developed airborne radar system is conducting an airborne survey of earthquake fault displacements caused by the Aug. 24 magnitude 6.0 quake in Napa Valley, Calif...

Google's drones may one day shuttle smartphones to door steps. But the visionaries behind driverless cars also foresee the drones delivering relief to areas struck by disaster.

A long-running debate between the White House and Congress about funding levels and prioritization of NASA programs entered a new phase last week after a major cost and schedule review concluded the debut of the Space La...

NASA approved extensions for all seven missions that were vetted by senior scientists in the agency's 2014 senior review of operating planetary science missions.

The U.S. Air Force has finished renegotiating its contract with Raytheon for the ground system for GPS 3 satellites.

When you think of the U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Authority and the FBI, a team of starry-eyed film students may not necessarily come to mind as a potential partner for science.

A new NASA mission launched in the Arctic this week could help scientists learn more about Earth's changing climate.

A group of astrophysicists, including researchers from MIPT, has detected the formation of radioactive cobalt during a supernova explosion, lending credence to a corresponding theory of supernova explosions. Details are ...

NASA Breaking News: NASA's twin Van Allen Probes will celebrate on Saturday two years of studying the sun's influence on our planet and near-Earth space. The probes, shortly after launch in August 2012, discovered a thir...

The U.S. Air Force's mysterious unmanned space plane has winged beyond 600 days in orbit on a classified military mission that seems to have no end.

The first analysis of space dust collected by a special collector onboard NASA's Stardust mission and sent back to Earth for study in 2006 suggests the tiny specks open a door to studying the origins of the solar system ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The International Space Station's HICO instrument enables researchers to "see" what their eyes miss to study water quality.

It may sound like science fiction, but astronomers have worked out a scheme that will allow them to detect and measure particles ten times smaller than the width of a human hair, even at many light-years distance. They c...

Astrophysicists obtained for the first time spectra of radiating cobalt registered at the supernova SN2014J, shown above, located 11 million light-years from Earth. Isotope 56Co has a half-life of just 77 days, and does ...

The kilometer-size rubble pile appears to be held together by van der Waals forces. Karen Hopkin reports --

Students from Mississippi and Louisiana will gather at the INFINITY Science Center in Pearlington, Mississippi, for a long-distance call with NASA astronauts currently orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Statio...

NASA's twin Van Allen Probes will celebrate on Saturday two years of studying the sun's influence on our planet and near-Earth space. The probes, shortly after launch in August 2012, discovered a third radiation belt aro...

Media accreditation now is open to attend an event marking the move of NASA's Orion spacecraft at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will be transferred from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Ch...

New measurement points to possible error in ESA survey that could also affect the agency's new Gaia mission --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Through humility, focus and hard work, Megan Meehan realized her dream of being a NASA aerospace engineer.