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International Space Station Commander Butch Wilmore took a photo of himself Saturday (Feb. 21) that captured a gloriously blue, cloud-studded ocean in the background. Fellow spacewalker Terry Virts is reflected in Wilmor...

The first of the U.S. Air Force's newest generation of positioning, navigation and timing satellites is now expected to launch in 2017 rather than in 2016 as previously expected. The post Launch of First GPS 3 Satellite ...

A UN report is calling for drones to be deployed in most peacekeeping missions as part of a major technological leap needed to help the United Nations confront world crises, the lead expert of the study said Monday.

Ceres, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, has almost no gravity, warmth or atmosphere.

(AP)--People from Arizona to Canada have reported seeing bright lights in the sky as a Chinese rocket burned up in the atmosphere.

The Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest seem to inhabit separate worlds....

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency launched three missile targets over the Atlantic Ocean Feb. 24 to test the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System's response to a multitiered attack. The post MDA Launches Three ...

(AP)--Russia's space agency expects the International Space Station to stay in orbit through 2024, and plans to create its own space outpost with its segment of the station after that.

Harris CapRock has put together a new maritime service that company officials say will keep users connected by automatically switching them to the best available network, satellite or terrestrial, at any given location. ...

Three Expedition 42 crew members will fly aboard a Soyuz TMA-15M rocket scheduled to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station

A recent action by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is stirring up some moon dust in a legal debate about private companies setting up shop on the moon.

Most astronomers rely on flat images to study cosmic objects, but a group of researchers is taking an alternate approach: They're creating 3D-printed models of a star system in order to study its physical characteristics...

The Academy Award winning film “Birdman” used what’s called tracking shot to create the sense of a seamless one-shot film. A new timelapse created from imagery captured by astronauts on the International Space Stat...

NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite shows wind blown Saharan dust nourishes plants with phosphorus, which is in limited supply in the Amazon.

A private venture to send humans on a one-way journey to Mars has suffered another setback with the loss of a television deal, although the venture's leader said it won't affect the ongoing selection of crews for the mis...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: An unusual comet skirted past the sun Feb 18-21, 2015, as captured by ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. The comet is a non-group comet, meaning it's not part ...

Astrobotic Technology and Team Hakuto, both competing in the Google Lunar X Prize competition announced plans to work together in an arrangement that could ultimately result in several teams sharing the prize purse. The ...

The European Commission, the European Space Agency and Airbus Defence and Space have reached agreement on funding and management of a laser data-relay system after months of wrangling. The post Three-way Agreement Extend...

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information for the primary sensor on its next-generation weather satellite, a first step toward acquiring the hardware. The post U.S. Air Force Seeks Info on Weather Satellite...

NASA has rescheduled to 3 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 25, a briefing on an upcoming mission to study magnetic reconnection around the Earth, a fundamental process that occurs throughout the universe where magnetic fields co...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a briefing at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Monday, March 2, to discuss the March 6 arrival of the agency's Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres. The news briefing, held at J...

Nothing turns your internet procrastination time into feelings of goodwill and teamwork like a citizen science project. You can click through a set of penguin photos or moon craters and know that your data are contributi...