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The space ministers of France, Germany and Italy are to assess how far they are from agreement on strategy and funding for Europe's next-generation Ariane rocket.

The Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) study examines ways to potentially deflect asteroids from trajectories that could lead to them impacting Earth....

Two days out from her history making date with destiny, India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) successfully completed a crucial test firing of the spacecraft’s main liquid engine to confirm its operational readiness for th...

A couple of years ago, one of my thesis mentors sought visually impaired scientists working at a major space science agency in the United States. --

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed what may be the first-ever signs of windy weather around a T Tauri star, an infant analog of our own Sun....

NASA Breaking News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will give remarks at the launch of the world's first "flying classroom" -- an innovative program to inspire and engage students in science, technology, engineering an...

Audience members voted to restore Pluto's planethood during an event held last week organized by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal operations after a high-energy particle event forced the mission to enter safe mode, knocking its ion drive offline.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says his company expects to spend $100 million in South Texas over the next three to four years on the first commercial orbital spaceport.

When traveling to far off lands, one packs carefully. What you carry must be comprehensive but not so much that it is a burden. And once you arrive, you must be prepared to do something extraordinary to make the long jou...

At a 1990 conference on cosmology, I asked attendees, who included folks like Stephen Hawking, Michael Turner, James Peebles, Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, to nominate the smartest living physicist. --

Wwork to build the facility will not ramp up until the second half of 2015.

Scientists of the Planck collaboration, and in particular the Trieste team, have conducted a series of in-depth checks on the discovery recently publicized by the Antarctic Observatory, which announced last spring that i...

This is a question we are often asked: what is the difference between a coronal mass ejection (CME) and a solar flare? We discussed it in a recent astrophoto post, but today NASA put out a video with amazing graphics tha...

A new European prototype telescope inspired by an insect's eye could help protect Earth from dangerous asteroids when it is expected to come online next year.

A probe flying through deep space has been beaming back amazing photos and information about its target comet since arriving at the cosmic body in August.

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A little over a week before NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft fired its rockets to successfully enter orbit around Mars, MESSENGER performed a little burn of its own - the second of four orbit correction maneuvers (OCMs) that wi...

Since it was awoken from deep space hibernation, the ESA mission has been collecting scientific data on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It has imaged dust streams emanating from the surface and captured grains with an o...

Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Co...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will give remarks at the launch of the world's first "flying classroom" -- an innovative program to inspire and engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)...

A solar flare is a light-speed traveling burst of x-rays and energy, while a coronal mass ejection (CME) is a giant cloud of particles emitted from the Sun. Both can affect the Earth in different ways and sometimes they ...