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Mars One, which aims to land four pioneers on the Red Planet in 2025 as the vanguard of a permanent colony, has whittled its pool of astronaut candidates down to 100, organization representatives announced Monday.

Satellite fleet operator SES, in an order highlighting an industry trend, on Feb. 16 announced contracts for three telecommunications satellites from three manufacturers, with the heaviest spacecraft weighing just 4,200 ...

Starburst galaxies transmute gas into new stars at a dizzying pace - up to 1,000 times faster than typical spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. To help understand why some galaxies "burst" while others do not, an internat...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hopes to start as many as five new space development programs next year in areas including space threat awareness and satellite propulsion technology. The post 5 New Spa...

The U.S. Air Force, which is developing an experimental tactical missile warning sensor slated for launch late next year, has unveiled tentative plans to follow that up with a strategic sensor demo that would launch in 2...

Just as Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Feb. 2, indicating that six more weeks of cold weather are in store, President Barack Obama's NASA budget blueprint -- released the same day -- foretells an indefinite continuatio...

Altius Space Machines President and CEO Jonathan Goff offers 10 reasons why NASA's nearly universally disliked Asteroid Redirect Mission, or one like it, might be worthwhile. The post Op-Ed | 10 Reasons Why an Asteroid R...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently released this 2.5-minute animation to showing how it plans to launch microsatellites quickly and economically with the Airborne Launch Assist Space Acce...

Time-lapse video of the European Space Agency's final ATV departing the International Space Station. The post Europe’s Final ATV Departs the ISS in Time-lapse Video appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet....

The European Space Agency says high-resolution images the Rosetta space probe took during a swoop close to a comet it's been tracking for months show boulders on the comet's surface as well as "stunning details of the co...

Space science image of the week: Rosetta swoops in for the closest comet flyby yet

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.

ESA Top News: Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.

ESA Science & Technology : Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.

It was on Feb. 14, 1990, that the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back at our solar system and snapped the first-ever pictures of the planets from its perch at that time beyond Neptune, capturing Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jup...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) of Britain, in a surprise announcement, on Feb. 16 said a senior Airbus Defence and Space official would become chief executive as of April 1. The post Airbus' Wood Replaces Perkin...

"All stars form in dense clouds of dust and gas," said Adam Leroy, an astronomer formerly with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, and now with The Ohio State University in Colum...

It has been a long time coming but the FAA's proposed rules for commercial drone operators please everyone but Amazon.

Mars is a constant point of discussion for space explorers around the world. We've sent dozens of spacecraft there to study it. Some want to land astronauts on it. The planet is just far away to make that dream difficult...

The birth of planetary nebulae, resulting from the death of low and intermediate mass stars, is usually thought of as a slow process, in contrast with the intense supernovae that massive stars produce. But a recent study...