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Anyone who’s ever read a Charlie Brown comic strip knows “Pig-Pen”, the lovable boy who walks around in a constant cloud of his own dirt and dust. Every time he sighs, dust rises in a little cloud around him. Why b...

The emerging problem of floating space junk becomes more and more evident and bothersome. Spacecraft and satellites are currently subject to high-speed impacts by more than 19,000 trackable objects, mainly old satellites...

While the International Space Station was traveling over the Mediterranean Sea, Expedition 42 Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA, with the assistance of Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space A...

The service module from a past test flight around the moon arrived in orbit there this week --

The Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, planned to launch on Jan. 29, will improve drought tracking in the United States and around the world.

"... the probability that there is one or more remaining outer solar system object of this brightness left to be discovered in the unsurveyed regions of the galactic plane is approximately 32%."...

Two high-orbiting U.S. Air Force space surveillance satellites that launched in July must show "unprecedented" maneuvering accuracy given their potential to cause damage in a heavily used belt of Earth orbit. The post Ne...

Engineers with the private spaceflight company SpaceX are still trying to piece together what went wrong with a reusable rocket test Saturday, but the company's founder Elon Musk thinks there's a better chance of succeed...

Before NASA’s Kepler mission searched for exoplanets using the transit method, there was the European COROT mission, launched in 2006. It was sent to search for planets with short orbital periods and find solar oscilla...

The capsule was carried Jan. 10 atop a Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from Cape Canaveral. After launch, the rocket came down as planned on a drone ship but hit a bit too hard --

U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) will replace former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) as chairman of the House's Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the nation's spy satellites, in the just-convened 114t...

The Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything" took home two Golden Globe awards during the Sunday night (Jan. 11) ceremony.

The Need For Speed Even before U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten assumed leadership of Space Command in August, his priorities were clear: prepare the service's space enterprise for another round of sequestration budget cut...

Were the molecules in comet ices and terrestrial oceans born with the system itself--in the planet-forming disk of dust and gas that circled the young sun 4.6 billion years ago? Or did the water originate even earlier--i...

Via Universe Today, I saw this sweet little video by visual effects artist Lucas Green: "Space Suite". He took NASA images from Cassini, Hubble, and more, applied a few simple 3-D tricks to them, and created something ...

Congress mandated that NASA's new Space Launch System must use Space Shuttle Main Engines (RS-25 ), one which fired successfully for 500 seconds at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Jan. 9th, 2015.

The CRS-5 cargo mission has arrived at the International Space Station on Jan. 12, 2015. It is carrying two tons of supplies and experiments for the crew.

Nostalgic fans of space-themed games should have dozens of options to explore.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The failure of a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket was linked to the installation process for the second stage igniter.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

"Expecting to find a black hole in every galaxy is sort of like expecting to find a pit inside a peach," explains astronomer Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson. "With this Hubble observatio...

Suomi satellite image of the northeastern United States taken at night, lit by moonlight. Larger image...