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Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: A €9M contract is announced today for UK-based engineers and designers to build a unique and powerful instrument that aims to tackle some of the most c...

Today: 40 Soyuz (40S) Launch and Dock: 40S launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:25pm CDT today with Barry Wilmore, Elena Serova, and AlexanderSamokutyaev onboard. After orbital insertion, Mission Control Center Mos...

The United Kingdom on Sept. 23 became the latest nation to sign a space surveillance data-sharing agreement with United States.

Not all water in the solar system today could have formed in our solar system --

Engineers have integrated the two stages of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 Heavy rocket that will launch NASA's Orion capsule on a highly anticipated unmanned mission known as Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) ...

To my mind, "standard orbit, Mr. Sulu" are more exciting words than "beam me up, Scotty." An orbit contains a promise of ongoing excitement and adventure: When a spacecraft settles into orbit around another world, that m...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Jason Major (@JPMajor) (...)Read the r...

Autumn is under way in the Northern Hemisphere, and if you are an avid sky gazer you just might have noticed signs of the season's change, in star form. Here are the stars to look for in Fall 2014.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory mission has succeeded in producing a state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, a key breakthrough for the instrument.

NASA said the CRS2 contracts will cover ISS cargo transportation through fiscal year 2020, with options through 2024.

(AP)--The European Space Agency says it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet on Nov. 12.

Huge disks of dust and gas encircle many young stars. Some contain circular gaps -- likely the result of forming planets carving out cavities along their orbital paths -- that make the disks look more like ripples in a p...

A group including several of the world's largest commercial satellite fleet operators is proposing that global regulators not extend current radio spectrum allocations for air-to-ground communications links to satellite ...

NASA has developed apps that can track shooting stars and iPhone games to hunt for comets, but its latest app is an educational project for kids all about rocket launches.

On the heels of awarding groundbreaking contracts to U.S. commercial space companies to ferry American astronauts to the International Space Station, NASA has released a request for proposals (RFP) for the next round of ...

Machines already have superhuman strength, speed and stamina - and one day they will have superhuman intelligence. The only reasons this may not occur is if we develop some other dangerous technology first that destroys ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Kasha Patel's mission? Filling the unknown demand of Indian female comics from West Virginia.

It seems too round to be true — the Curiosity rover has found a ball-shaped object among the craggy rocks in its picture. This image was taken on Sol 746 of the rover’s mission on Mars, which so far has extended over...

As technical work ramps up on an experimental military spaceplane program, government and industry are studying how to eventually commercialize the vehicle.

High-pressure cycles unexpectedly convert benzene into superstrong and ultrathin threads. Will they put a space elevator within reach? --

High-pressure cycles unexpectedly convert benzene into superstrong and ultrathin fibers. Will they put a space elevator within reach? --

Inmarsat's priority is moving into emerging nations to realize the potential of an overall market that industry consultants see growing by 10 percent annually in the coming years.