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Struggling startup satellite fleet operator NewSat said negotiations with its lenders were at a standstill because one of them -- the French export-credit agency, Coface -- refused to approve loan waivers that would perm...

After more than a week of demonstrations and dozens of arrests, Hawaii Gov. David Ige said Tuesday that the company building one of the world's largest telescopes atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea has agreed to his request to halt...

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is challenging NASA's surprise award of a contract to build the next three U.S. civilian weather satellites to rival Orbital ATK, a Ball official said. The post Ball Protests JPSS Aw...

On Monday (April 6), NASA engineers took their first looks at the parts cranked out by the International Space Station's 3D printer.

Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the size of Mars struck and merged with Earth, blasting a huge cloud of rock and debris into space. This cloud would eventually coale...

The International Space Station's 3D printer, by Made In Space, Inc., was tested several times on-orbit. Printed items were sent 'downhill' to Earth in Feb. 2014 on a SpaceX Dragon.

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star. The discovery, made with the Atacama Large Millimet...

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Flying twice the speed of a Space Shuttle, a collision with cosmic debris could be catastrophic. Flying twice the speed of a Space Shuttle, a collision with cosmic debris could be catastrophic.

In our original series 5 years ago on the "13 Things That Saved Apollo 13," the first item we discussed was the timing of the explosion. As NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill told us, if the tank was going to rupture and the c...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star. The discovery, made with the Atacama Large Millimet...

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Historically, in competitions you always want to be the last man standing. At NASA, optimal functional performance, such as standing, is taken even more seriously. When astronauts return to Earth from working on the Inte...

A crucial difference in the "fingerprints" of Earth and the moon confirms an explosive, interconnected past...

The discovery of complex organic molecules around a young star suggests that the chemical ingredients required for life exist beyond the solar system.

The protoplanetary disc around a constellation of Taurus star, named MWC 480, harbors enough methyl cyanide (CH3CN) to "fill all of Earth's oceans," according to the European Southern Observatory.

The formation of the moon has long remained a mystery, but new studies support the theory that the moon was formed from debris left from a collision between the newborn Earth and a Mars-size rock, with a veneer of meteor...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, suggesting once again that the conditions that spaw...

Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the size of Mars struck and merged with Earth, blasting a huge cloud of rock and debris into space. This cloud would eventually coale...