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If all goes as hoped, SpaceX will have a very busy 2015. The commercial space company could launch as many as 17 rockets, including a mid-flight test abort of the Dragon capsule to demonstrate its in-flight crew escape s...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Exelis Information Systems modifications worth more than $32 million combined to four separate contracts to support space surveillance and missile defense capabilities in 2015. The post Exe...

The U.S. Air Force's future missile warning satellite constellation will be among the first programs to be subjected to a service-wide acquisition reform initiative that will closely engage industry to help find the most...

Truly a man for all seasons, Elon Musk's next big thing is to build an internet for when people start arriving on Mars. "It will be important for Mars to have a global communications network as well," he told Bloomberg B...

NASA's Dawn mission snapped imagery of Ceres at a distance of 238,000 miles (about the same distance between the Earth and the Moon) on Jan. 13th, 2015. The images show 'hint of craters' according to NASA's Jet Propulsio...

When the Dawn mission was in its planning stages, Ceres was considered an asteroid. But in 2006, a year before the mission launched, the International Astronomical Union formed a new class of solar system objects known a...

I hate to admit it, but our dear comet is fading. Only a little though. As Comet Q2 Lovejoy wends its way from Earth toward perihelion and beyond, it will slowly dim and diminish. With an orbital period of approximately ...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

MDA Corp. won a contract worth $5.2 million to provide a communications antenna subsystem for an unspecified Boeing-built satellite. The post MDA To Supply Subsystem For Boeing-built Satellite appeared first on SpaceNews...

Tempus Global Data, the commercial weather data hopeful that last year took over an effort to commercialize a Utah State University design for a geostationary-orbiting weather sensor, has contracted with Ball Aerospace &...

My friend Cara Santa Maria hosts the science podcast "Talk Nerdy to Me" where she talks to scientists and science communicators about, well, science. She invited me on, and the episode is online. We talked about a wide r...

This 8-minute film gives an overview of the past, present, and future of Moon exploration, from the Lunar cataclysm to European Space Agency's vision of what Lunar exploration could be....

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in early December....

Elon Musk says SpaceX has filed paperwork for a global satellite Internet project to eventually include some 4,000 satellites and initial service within 5 years. The post SpaceX To Build 4,000 Broadband Satellites in Sea...

For DSCOVR – the payload of SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 launch, waiting one more week is a yawn. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft has withstood a delay of over 12 years. Word from Cape Canaveral is t...

Over the past few years, astronomers have observed a new phenomenon, a brief burst of radio waves, lasting only a few milliseconds. It was first seen by chance in 2007, when astronomers went through archival data from th...

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month, the NASA Kepler Space Telescope team announced its 1,000th discovery of a planet outside our solar system. This brings the total number of co...

A new alien-planet-hunting telescope has just come online in Chile, and it could help scientists peer into the atmospheres of relatively small planets circling nearby stars.

An international team of scientists including Hans-Rainer Klöckner from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and Dominik Schwarz from the University of Bielefeld have joined forces to lay the foundations...

Our Solar System is a pretty picturesque place. Between the Sun, the Moon, and the Inner and Outer Solar System, there is no shortage of wondrous things to behold. But arguably, it is the eight planets that make up our S...

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening -- a 'fast radio burst'. The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source in the universe....

Sam Cristoforetti @AstroSamantha And a look from above into the eye of the cyclone! E uno sguardo dall'alto nell'occhio del ciclone. #Bansi...