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With excitement building as Comet Siding Spring rapidly approaches the Red Planet, we’ll soon have the opportunity to spot it through our own telescopes. Dark skies return this week with the moon now past full and risi...

Four O3b Networks broadband satellites are likely to be launched in mid-December aboard a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket.

A new role-playing game set for release next year aims to bring fans of the series 'Firefly' back into the space western universe years after the show went off the air.

Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, is being vetted for NASA's deputy administrator position, according to a former senior government official.

All options, including enhanced or possibly even stripped-down capabilities, appear to be on the table as the U.S. Air Force mulls the future of its missile warning satellite constellation.

NASA's rovers and orbiters at Mars will witness a close encounter with a comet on October 19, an event that happens once every million years --

NASA announced Oct. 9 that it has lifted an order that halted work on commercial crew contracts awarded last month to Boeing and SpaceX, saying that delaying work during an ongoing contract protest could jeopardize the o...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 10, 2014: Major T...

A research team led by Caltech astronomers of Pasadena California have discovered an ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) source that is pulsating. Their analysis concluded that the source in a nearby galaxy – M82 – is from a r...

If you’re a fan of SpaceX, you’ll love the website SpaceXStats. Writ large on the site are real-time countdowns to upcoming launches, all sorts of SpaceX statistics, launch manifest info, and fun trivia (there’s a ...

Tourists wishing to visit the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome for a launch often face many obstacles.

NASA Breaking News: NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 14, to announce early science results from its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.

Focusing on large, star-forming galaxies, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University were able to measure radiation leaks in an effort to better understand how the universe evolved as the first stars were formed.

Retired space shuttle Endeavour continues to draw crowds at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

In an event titled "Go for Payload," the California Science Center added a Spacehab module to the open hold of the retired space shuttle Endeavour.

International regulators would have access to a global network of satellite Earth stations capable of verifying that telecommunications satellites are doing what they are registered to do under a proposal that has been a...

NASA hosted a briefing yesterday, Oct. 9, to outline the space and Earth-based assets that will have extraordinary opportunities to image and study Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring will miss Mars by only about 88,000 miles ...

Forget Saturn's rings. The jewel of the solar system has another stunning feature that only faraway spacecraft can see clearly: a hexagon-shaped vortex that's been swirling above Saturn's north pole for at least 30 years...

NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 14, to announce early science results from its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.

NASA has awarded 41 contracts under the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V. Forty one contracts were awarded in the Server Support Devices/Multi-functional Devices, Group C.

An excerpt from Marc Kaufman's 'Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission,' which was published in August 2014 by National Geographic.

The infrared payload still needs to be integrated and tested on the Space Based Infrared System satellite.