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Earth observation image of the week: a mosaic of Sentinel-1A radar scans over Romania, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

The spacecraft that serves as a cornerstone of NASA's long-term human space exploration plans carried out nearly flawlessly a brief but critical first flight test Dec. 5.

A Canadian company wants to land a couple of robots on Mars in late 2018, but to do so, it might need your help.

The list of amazing things that astrophotographer Thierry Legault captures with his camera keeps growing! This time, it's a trio of hard-to see, formation-flying Chinese reconnaissance satellites called Yaogan. "Yaogan t...

Forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center expect Super Typhoon Hagupit to reach peak intensity today, Dec. 4, and although expected to weaken, will remain a Category 4 typhoon when it approaches the east central Ph...

Gen. John Hyten said the Chinese government has asked the U.S. Air Force to send warnings of potential satellite collisions directly to its space operators, with no detour through the U.S. State Department.

On 28 November 2014, the flight control team at ESOC reported loss of contact with Venus Express....

The effects of climate change are already showing up in places from Miami to Alaska, scientists say, but two University of Florida geologists are focusing their attention on one especially noteworthy and vulnerable piece...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the d...

Aspiring private weather satellite operators who want to sell data to NOAA pitch their services as a supplement, not a competitor, to the government-operated satellites that contribute most of the space-based data used i...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NASA Breaking News: NASA marked a major milestone Friday on its journey to Mars as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to space, traveling farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has been in more ...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – Dec. 5, 2014: Orion’s Successful Launch! (494 words) �...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—After four and a half hours of flying around Earth, the new Orion capsule made a triumphant splashdown in the Pacific Ocean to end its debut mission. --

United Launch Alliance: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (Dec. 5, 2014) - A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft for Lockheed Martin successfully launched from Space ...

A crew capsule designed for deep space made its debut launch from Cape Canaveral --

A study of "MY Camelopardalis" binary system, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are made up by merging with other smaller stars, as predicted by theoretical models.

The US space agency's Orion capsule circled the Earth twice before plunging into the ocean Friday in a flawless test flight that NASA called a "significant milestone" in the journey to Mars.

The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet. This is Dawn's best image yet of Ceres ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the completion of a sequence of the important operations for the Asteroid Exploration "Hayabusa2" mission including the deployment of the horn part of the sampler t...

(AP)--NASA's new Orion spacecraft has hit its intended high point of 3,600 miles above Earth, the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has traveled in four decades.

Thales Alenia Space will build the SWOT ocean-altimetry satellite as part of a U.S.-French collaboration and Airbus Defence and Space will build the Merlin methane-detecting satellite as part of a joint Franco-German pro...