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The top Democrat on the House Science space subcommittee announced she will run for the Senate seat currently held by the retiring Barbara Mikulski, further altering the space policy landscape on Capitol Hill. The post E...

Engineers across the country have been busy taking a closer look at NASA's Orion spacecraft and the data it produced during its successful flight test in December 2014....

Astronauts on the International Space Station are about a third of the way through filming scenes for a new IMAX documentary to be released in late spring 2016, the film's director revealed in a new interview.

Boeing is about three months behind schedule on a giant welding tool to be used in the assembly of NASA's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, but the first flight of the massive vehicle remains on track for 2018. The ...

I've mentioned a few times here that I write a biweekly column for Sen.com, a site that has lots of news and blogs dealing with space exploration (Sen stands for "Space Exploration Network"). The news articles are free, ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA has awarded the Mark IV and the Next Generation Very Long Baseline Interferometry Systems contract to MIT.

After trying to shutter the Operationally Responsive Space Office three years in a row, the U.S. Air Force is now seeking $6 million for ORS and contemplating an expanded role that could involve the rapid-response space ...

The sun emitted two mid-level solar flares on March 9, 2015: The first peaked at 7:54 pm EDT and the second at 11:24 pm EDT.

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise--it appears to be radiating gamma rays, according to an analysis by physicists at Carnegie Mellon, Brown, and Cambridge universities. T...

A constellation of four satellites orbit through Earth's magnetic field to study the mysterious phenomenon called magnetic reconnection.

Launch vehicle development and production activities are the dominant feature of an Indian Space Research Organisation budget allocation of 73.9 billion rupees ($1.2 billion) for the 2015-2016 fiscal year, which begins A...

From earthbound optical telescopes, the surface of Venus is shrouded beneath thick clouds made mostly of carbon dioxide. To penetrate this veil, probes like NASA's Magellan spacecraft use radar to reveal remarkable featu...

NASA is counting down to launch four small satellites into orbit on Thursday (March 12) on a mission to study an explosive cosmic phenomenon happening right on Earth's doorstep.

What powers solar flares, auroras and other big zaps of plasma? NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will study "magnetic reconnection" in the cosmos.

Even though it’s said that the average human eye can discern from seven to ten million different values and hues of colors, in reality our eyes are sensitive to only a very small section of the entire electromagnetic s...

Even 100,000 million miles away, NASA's New Horizons probe has begun delivering unprecedented views. The mission's principal investigator Dr. Alan Stern tells Space.com just how much better the imagery will be.

Sarah Brightman will be 'chasing dreams' and 'shaping futures' when she launches on a self-funded trip to the International Space Station in September, the soprano said as she revealed her personal mission patch at a pre...

Apollo 9 lunar module pilot Rusty Schweickart had just exited his vehicle when command module pilot Dave Scott told him to hang on. Schweickart got five minutes of peace and introspection while Scott tried to fix a jamme...

The star cluster is unique since it's located thousands of light-years away from the main disc of our galaxy.

Where is the Philae lander and will it wake up again? Those are the questions the team at the DLR Lander Control Center will be trying to answer starting this week. Thursday, March 12 provides the first possibility to re...

Aerojet Rocketdyne plans by 2019 to reduce the footprint of its largest facility by 40 percent and reduce its workforce by 10 percent. The post Aerojet Rocketdyne Plans Consolidation, Job Cuts To Reduce Costs appeared fi...

See stunning photos of the night sky and sun as seen by stargazers around the world in this Space.com photo gallery for March 2015 made up of images sent in by Space.com readers.