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Now less than 25 days from the history making rendezvous with the Red Planet and the critical Mars Orbital Insertion (MOI) engine firing, India's MOM is in good health! The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, counts as India's...

The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, explained why searching for intelligent life is so important and why we may soon f...

ESA's Rosetta orbiter has now moved in so close to its comet quarry that the primordial body overwhelms the screen, and thus its snapping mapping mosaics to capture the complete scene of the bizarre world so it can find ...

While a number of companies are experimenting with drones, there are a number of issues to be hurdled before such technology can take to the skies. But it's clear Google and Amazon are intent on making drone delivery doa...

Only one species of the billions of species that have existed on Earth has shown an aptitude for radios and even we failed to build one during the first 99% of our 7 million year history. Charley Lineweaver, a provocativ...

(Phys.org) --An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash memory.

(Phys.org) --Massive stars end their lives with a bang, exploding as supernovas and releasing massive amounts of energy and matter. What remains of the star is a small and extremely dense remnant: a neutron star or a bla...

While many Americans will spend Labor Day (Sept. 1) barbecuing, relaxing and soaking up the end of summer, U.S. astronauts in space will spend the holiday in their own way: floating in weightlessness.

Now that's pure gorgeous. As Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring sidles towards its October 19th encounter with Mars, it's passing a trio of sumptuous deep sky objects near the south celestial pole this week. Astrophotographer...

Sigh. Here we go again. The Daily Mail and Mail Online are to scientific accuracy what a sledgehammer is to an egg. Especially when it comes to global warming. David Rose is oftentimes the wielder of that sledgehammer. H...

(Phys.org) --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 radia...

Most people don't think much about their aerobic capacity while at work. But for astronauts carrying out missions on the International Space Station (ISS), maintaining their cardiovascular stamina during long space fligh...

(Phys.org) --NASA has successfully tested the most complex rocket engine parts ever designed by the agency and printed with additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, on a test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...

ESA Space Science: Space Science Image of the Week: Old magnetic neutron star overshadowed by the veil of quiet, younger counterpart

Space Science Image of the Week: Old magnetic neutron star overshadowed by the veil of quiet, younger counterpart

NASA's report on the state of SLS is a clear indication that the NASA/industry program team is on track to deliver a deep-space exploration capability for the future.

Dream Chaser cannot do all that the original shuttle did, but it can perform the shuttle's single most important task of transporting crews to the ISS and returning them to a safe and dry landing on a runway in full view...

Organizers of the recent 17th annual SMD Symposium were appropriately embarrassed and apologetic after reporters there were treated more like intruders than guests by overzealous security personnel.

ESA received a large and well-deserved dose of satisfaction when Rosetta finally arrived within striking distance of its destination.

The past year has been rough for commercial launch services provider International Launch Services.

A government-industry board of inquiry into the Aug. 22 failure of a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket to correctly orbit two European Galileo navigation satellites is scheduled to present its initial results Sept. 8.

Both are setting up similar, privately owned capabilities to tap what they see as an emerging market to sell orbital data to government and commercial customers.