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NOAA has acknowledged that the "unscheduled maintenance" that temporarily disrupted the flow of certain satellite data to the National Weather Service in October was prompted by "an internet-sourced attack" on four NOAA ...

The first spacecraft ever to land on a comet has fallen silent, entering a potentially long, cold sleep after running out of power. The European Space Agency's Philae lander has entered hibernation after 57 hours on Come...

For decades, the existence of Dark Matter has been essential to our view of the cosmos. Without it (and its close-relation dark energy) our universe would be missing some 84.5% of its mass and scientists would be hard pr...

Lacking power, its instruments and most systems went into standby mode after three days of non-stop work, the Rosetta mission sent back data that will keep scientists busy for years. "The data collected by Philae and Ros...

(Phys.org) --A map released today by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with random distribution around the globe. Released to ...

The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet's surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to go silent, the European Space Agency said Saturday.

If you were up late Friday night, or rather awake in the wee hours of Saturday, you may have seen two brilliant objects that will immediately catch your eye if the sky is clear.

Stargazers in the U.S. should look for meteors on Monday and Tuesday morning before dawn.

European probe goes in what may be permanent hibernation 57 hours after making its historic landing on Comet 67P.

The European Space Agency received no signals from the Philae lander Saturday morning during a scheduled effort to establish communication, the mission chief said.

One of the funny things about being a human is that our intuition can steer us wrong, even on things that should be pretty obvious, things we see literally every day. For example, if you ask someone what would fall faste...

Rosetta's lander has completed its primary science mission after nearly 57 hours on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

ESA Science & Technology : Rosetta's lander has completed its primary science mission after nearly 57 hours on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Robot probe Philae uploaded a slew of data to Earth Friday from a deep-space comet that it drilled into long after its onboard battery was feared to have died.

Contact with the Philae lander was lost at 6:36 p.m. (CST) this evening November 14th. Without sunlight to juice up its solar panels and recharge the battery, the craft will remain in “idle mode” – maybe for a long...

After moving out to the launch pad earlier this week, NASA's first Orion spacecraft was hoisted atop the most powerful rocket in the world and awaits blastoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida in early December on a critical ...

With its batteries depleted and not enough sunlight available to recharge, Philae has fallen into 'idle mode' -- a possibly long silence. In this mode, all instruments and most systems on board are shut down....

Manufacturing difficulties plagued major elements of the James Webb Space Telescope this year, forcing prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems to rebuild key structural elements declared unfit for flight whil...

The U.S. Air Force's proposed next-generation weather satellite program will consist of a single satellite carrying three instruments that would launch in 2021 or 2022, a service official said.

Update (Nov. 14, 2014 at 23:00 UTC): Contact with Philae has been re-established! Data taken from the surface (including drill samples) have been sent back to Earth. Not only that, a command was sent to rotate the lander...