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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut safely blasted off Sunday to begin its journey to the International Space Station.

The U.S. Air Force is expected to demonstrate its newly developed protected tactical waveform in new modems and reworked terminals as early as 2018 as part of a long-term strategy to bolster the service's ability to offe...

(Phys.org) --A 3D image shows what it would look like to fly over the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was generated from data collected by the Rosetta Lander Imaging System (ROLIS) aboard the Europe...

NASA is due to launch the first test flight of its deep space Orion capsule on Dec. 4. Read all about the historic unmanned test flight here.

An anticipated funding boost for the Italian Space Agency has fallen short of expectations, raising doubts about Italy's ability to fully support programs including Europe's role in the international space station as wel...

The failure of an amendment adding funds to ASI's budget has thrown into question Italy's ability to commit to a next-generation Ariane rocket, continued use of ISS and Italy's next-generation civil/military radar satell...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Deep Space Climate Observatory is a mission whose primary task to collect measurements to enable space weather forecasting by NOAA.

Much like that pickup truck rusting in your backyard thanks to time, rain and the elements, extended stays in the brutal environment of space can take its toll on spacecraft, satellites and space stations. In fact, anyth...

The stunning green glow in this image comes from an aurora at Glacier National Park in Alaska. Astrophotographer John Ashley took this image from Livingston Mountain Range in Glacier National Park On Oct. 20, 2014.

The first flight test of Orion, NASA's next-generation spacecraft that will send astronauts to an asteroid and onward to Mars, is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 4. NASA will host a series of news conferences and flight tes...

The European Space Agency's Clean Space program is launching a multi-faceted approach to dealing with the issue of dangerous space debris

New research offers a novel insight into the nature of dark matter and dark energy and what the future of our Universe might be. Cosmology has undergone a paradigm shift since 1998 when researchers announced that the rat...

For months, a powerful U.S. senator has been pushing for details of a murky deal under which a Russian manufacturer supplies the rocket engines used to launch America's spy satellites into space.

(Phys.org) --In November, astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics presented new observations of the gas cloud G2 in the galactic centre originally discovered in 2011. These data are in remark...

The various companies that had stuff sitting on the failed Orbital Sciences Antares rocket launch last month are busy looking for alternatives. One example is Planet Labs, which is best known for deploying dozens of tiny...

This colourful image shows a cosmic lighthouse known as the Egg Nebula, which lies around 3000 light-years from Earth. The image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a brief but dramatic phase in...

The quest for optimal sites to carry out astronomical observations has taken scientists to the frigid Arctic. Eric Steinbring, who led a team of National Research Council Canada experts, noted that a high Arctic site can...

Video highlights of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's journey to the International Space Station with the Soyuz spacecraft - launch, docking and ingress

ESA Top News: Video highlights of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's journey to the International Space Station with the Soyuz spacecraft - launch, docking and ingress

Ever since the 16th century when Nicolaus Copernicus demonstrated that the Earth revolved around in the Sun, scientists have worked tirelessly to understand the relationship in mathematical terms. If this bright celestia...

There are so many fun sights to see in the sky that are pure astronomical magic. And then there are the spectacular human-created sights. One of those sights is watching satellites from the Iridium constellation that —...

And now we have six people in space again — including the first-ever Italian woman to reach orbit. Samantha Cristoforetti has been delighting people worldwide with her behind-the-scenes training posts as she prepares f...