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Futuristic space hardware developed under a DARPA effort to salvage usable parts from spent satellites is scheduled to make its first flight next year on the debut mission of Spaceflight Inc.'s Sherpa payload deployer. T...

Video Caption: Last moments of Orion descent as viewed from the recovery ship USS Anchorage. Credit: NASA/US Navy Relive the final moments of the first test flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft on Dec. 5, 2014 through this ...

Power outages and security breaches have been ruled out as operations at Heathrow return to normal. At least 66 flights were canceled as a result of the system failure at the UK's National Air Traffic Services.

From what looks like a freshly baked pie on Mars to a great shot of Dwarf Planet Ceres, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Dec. 13, 2014.

"We're all looking and somewhere, maybe even now, there's a little bit of data that will cause someone to have an 'Ah ha!' moment," said Harry Nelson, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara a...

For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations related to general relativity. A research team from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelon...

From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore took this photograph of the Great Lakes and central U.S. on Dec. 7, 2014, and posted it to social media....

The closest planet to the sun appears to get hit by a periodic meteor shower, possibly associated with a comet that produces multiple events annually on Earth....

The hugely successful first flight test on Dec. 5 of NASA's Orion spacecraft took it farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has been in more than 40 years....

NASA interns at Johnson Space Center celebrate Orion's EFT-1 launch with a parody video. Naturally. The post VIDEO | JSC Interns Nail ‘All About that Space’ Parody appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect as many as 120 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Dec. 13-14....

I don't know why cool cloud patterns seen from space fascinate me so; maybe it's just my inherent love of science, clouds, space, nature, and art. Actually, after writing that sentence, maybe I do know why. Also, sharing...

See the Geminid meteor shower peak tonight (Dec. 13) through three webcasts airing live online.

Rosetta's OSIRIS team have produced a color image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it would be seen by the human eye. As anticipated, the comet turns out to be very grey indeed, with only slight, subtle colour varia...

Alaska Aerospace selected Lockheed Martin from four proposals it received in November to provide medium-lift launch services from the spaceport. The post Alaska Aerospace Selects Lockheed Martin for Kodiak Launches appea...

Having successfully splashed down after its first spaceflight, NASA's Orion spacecraft is set to launch onto the big screen in a large-format 3D film. 'Journey To Space' tells the true story of what the next chapter of s...

NASA's present and possible future exploration plans are showcased in the giant screen format. Boeing and Toyota sponsored the film.