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Yesterday, NASA announced its Fiscal Year 2016 budget request. This is not the actual budget it will be getting. It's basically a handshake between NASA and the White House, agreeing on what they want Congress to approve...

Neither Opportunity nor NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allocated any funds in the White House's fiscal year 2016 budget request. But that doesn't mean the missions will definitely cease operations.

The Obama Administration today (Feb. 2) proposed a NASA budget allocation of $18.5 Billion for the new Fiscal Year 2016, which amounts to a half-billion dollar increase over the enacted budget for FY 2015, and keeps the ...

The Rosetta comet orbiter will continue its planned course which rules out making a special trip to find Philae --

LEGO, the brick-building toy company, has recently hosted some space LEGO events that have delighted my 6-year-old daughter to the point I had to share: Case in point, this adorable LEGO alien and its trusty pet.

The FAA is requesting a nine-percent budget increase beginning in October for its commercial space office, whose resources have been stressed by an increase in launch activity and two high-profile accident investigations...

Since my previous post was about dogs, its time to give equal time to the cats … although I’m guessing the cat lovers of the world won’t have a great reaction to this one. Here’s some footage from some the Aerosp...

The only thing interrupting the creosote and mesquite that make up one of New Mexico's most remote stretches of desert is a pristine runway where Virgin Galactic plans one day to launch the world's first commercial space...

Case Western Reserve University astronomers peered deep into space to discover new features of a galaxy that's been sketched and photographed for 170 years.

SpaceX will soon ship a Dragon test vehicle to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where the spaceship will undergo a critical "pad abort" trial to show how Dragon might respond if a problem were to occur during...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency intends to lead the effort to design a new kill vehicle for ground-based interceptors by using the best ideas from three previously submitted industry concepts. The post MDA Will Have Lead...

Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4 "Albert Einstein") met its demise on Nov. 2nd, 2014, carrying 1.6 tons of trash and used clothing from the International Space Station.

The Full Moon celebrates Jupiter’s coming opposition by accompanying the bright planet in a beautiful conjunction tonight. Even last night Jupiter and the Moon were close enough to attract attention. Tonight they’ll ...

Right now, and sadly not for the first time in recent years, the United States is looking at an outbreak of a dangerous yet nearly entirely preventable disease. We've had pockets of measles outbreaks here and there in th...

Astronaut Leland Melvin won the internet this week - and increased NASA's "Aw!" factor — when this photo surfaced of him and his two dogs, Jake and Scout. Melvin admitted on Twitter that he snuck the dogs into the phot...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured an image of the snow left behind from the fifth-largest blizzard to hit Chicago on Monday. A visible picture captured at 1445 UTC (9:45 a.m. EST) sh...

With its intense heat, thick air and high pressure, Venus is not an ideal vacation spot.

The RAS welcomes applications for funding under its ongoing grants scheme. The deadline for the next round of grants is 15 February 2015. Applications should normally be for sums between £250 and £5,000 (restrictions a...

A new video from NASA reveals amazing new images of an asteroid zipping through space while a small moon orbits it.

Ice, wind, cold temperatures and ocean waters combined to created dramatic cloud formations over the Bering Sea in late January, 2015....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA Goddard's Martha Stewart, contamination control technician Lori Mooney ensures that cleanliness makes for successful launches.

The White House plan would increase research and development funding but faces a rough road in Congress --