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DARPA's Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program (ALASA) plans to create a low cost (less the 1 millions dollars per launch) alternative for small satellite launches.

SpaceX is preparing for the first of two critical abort tests for the firm's next generation human rated Dragon V2 capsule as soon as March. The purpose of the pair of abort tests is to demonstrate a crew escape capabili...

Another two Galileo satellites have touched down in French Guiana ready to take their place in Europe's satellite navigation constellation.

Move over astronaut freeze-dried ice cream, Russian space food tubes have arrived. The All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow is now selling authentic cosmonaut food to the public through a new vending machine.

Today: Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (JSSOD) Status: Cristoforetti activated the JEMRMS Robotics Laptop (RLT), opened the JEM Airlock (JEMAL) outer hatch and extended the slide table.....

Space exploration evangelist Rick Tumlinson says he nearly choked on his almond milk when President Obama declared during his State of the Union address that we are going into space not just to explore but to stay. The p...

The Milky Way galaxy is more than just stars: A spectacular new image captures the gas, dust, particles and magnetic fields that also occupy this cosmic neighborhood.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Special Guest: Astronaut Ron Garan (orbitalpersepctive.com / @Astro_Ron) Ron will talk about his new book The Orbital Perspective:...

Anything can happen during a launch or landing of a crewed spacecraft, and just in case the crew would end up stranded in a remote area of the world, astronauts and cosmonauts undergo survival training and carry survival...

How do astronomers determine the shapes of objects that are too far away to photograph? One method is by using spectropolarimetry, an observational technique that measures the way light waves align after they scatter thr...

A positive review by the Federal Aviation Administration of a proposed Bigelow Aerospace lunar habitat is seen as a first step towards supporting commercial activities on the moon, but contrary to some reports, that revi...

There's a fascinating spot some 932,000 miles away from Earth where the gravity between the sun and Earth is perfectly balanced. This spot captures the attention of orbital engineers because a satellite can orbit this sp...

Hedging its bets on commercial crew, NASA's Johnson Space Center on Feb. 6 issued a formal notice of its intent to buy six more seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station in 2018. The pos...

Next Monday, ESA astronaut Samantha Christoforetti will float into Europe's space ferry to install a special infrared camera, set to capture unique interior views of the spacecraft's break-up on reentry....

How do astronomers determine the shapes of objects that are too far away to photograph? One method is by using spectropolarimetry, an observational technique that measures the way light waves align after they scatter thr...

It's a Red Planet two-for-one! A spacecraft orbiting Mars snapped an amazing photo of another probe on the Martian surface.

Ceres, which orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is a unique body in the Solar System, bearing many similarities to Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, both considered to be poten...

NASA Breaking News: NASA Television will provide live coverage of a news briefing on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) new satellite mission...

We’ve come a long way in 13.8 billion years; but despite our impressively extensive understanding of the Universe, there are still a few strings left untied. For one, there is the oft-cited disconnect between general r...

The 2016 budget proposal includes $30 million for a mission to Europa, a large icy moon believed to have subterranean oceans of liquid water that potentially could harbor life, which is currently in a "pre-formulation" p...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A NASA scientist is developing a new laser instrument to detect methane, a greenhouse gas.

Firing off a string of action snapshots like a sports photographer, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter's largest moons racing across the banded face of the gas-giant planet: Eu...