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WorldVu Satellites has issued requests for bids to satellite manufacturers for 640 125-kilogram satellites, industry officials said.

The huge rocket that will blast NASA's first Orion spacecraft into orbit is ready to Rock 'n' Roll on a critical two orbit test flight scheduled for December. And Orion is so big and heavy that she's not launching on jus...

We are now in the final hours before Rosetta's Philae lander is released to attempt a first-ever landing on a comet. At 9:03 GMT (1:03 AM PST) on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, Philae will be released and directed towards...

Scientists on Earth are hoping to land a probe on the face of a comet for the first time Wednesday (Nov. 12), and they are now one step closer to accomplishing that goal.

The family of a technician who died in an explosion during testing for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in 2007 has called on Sir Richard Branson to scrap his "risky" space venture before more people are killed.

Carnegie Institution for Science: Washington, D.C.--A two-person team of Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory has discovered a new active asteroid, called 62412, in the Solar System's...

The Rosetta probe's Philae Lander will attempt a soft-landing on comet 67P/C-G on Nov. 11th, 2014. It will take the lander a few hours to reach the surface after it is deployed.

India will conduct an experimental test of its GSLV Mark 3 in mid-December, ISRO Chief K. Radhakrishnan said Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems has received a $62.9 million contract modification from the Air Force to help develop the ground station for U.S. missile warning satellites.

A humongous sunspot -- the biggest one seen since 1990 -- has so far produced no aurora-causing events, despite sending off 10 huge solar flares in less than two weeks.

An international group of researchers with the participation of the Astronomic Observatory of the Universitat de València has discovered the first lightning bolts from a black hole by eruption with the strongest brightn...

Read news, see photos and watch videos about the Rosetta mission's landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko scheduled for Nov. 12.

Comet 67P/C-G is humming. ESA's Rosetta probe detected cyclical changes in the comet's magnetic field environment. To make the comet's magnetic 'song' audible to people, researchers sped up the data 10,000 times its actu...

"We want to find out whether spacetime is a quantum system just like matter is," said Craig Hogan, director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics and the developer of the holographic noise theory. "If we see som...

Every now and again, I think it's OK to simply post an amazingly dramatic and moody photo of an astronomical object. So please take a moment to appreciate this portrait of a brooding comet: This is 67P/Churyumov-Gerasim...

If there's one meteor shower that has the potential to bring on a storm of epic proportions, it's the Leonids. Peaking once every 33 years, these fast movers hail from the Comet 55P Temple-Tuttle, and radiate from the Si...

Supernova 1987A remnant's appearance has baffled astronomers for decades. One side is brighter than the other.

In an early holiday gift to the world's weather and marine forecasting agencies, ocean-winds data from NASA's newest Earth-observing mission, the International Space Station-Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat), are being...

Like many new mothers, a female elephant seal puts herself on a strict diet after giving birth. She dives into the Pacific and spends two months eating everything she can find. It's only by working hard at building up he...

This isn’t a clone of our Solar System, but it’s close enough. Scientists eagerly scrutinized a young star system called HD 95086 to learn more about how dust belts and giant planets grow up together. This is an impo...

This graphical guide identifies the dangers ahead for the Rosetta mission's Philae probe --

Under the contract, valued at 134 million euros, CGS will build three microwave instruments for the three "B" series Metop-SG satellites.