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ImageSat International suggested its long-delayed Eros-C satellite, now under construction at parent company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), will equal the image sharpness of DigitalGlobe's current 30-centimeter produ...

This insignificant patch of sky in the fairly obscure constellation of Fornax is the setting for one of the most remarkable images ever captured. Although only a fraction of the full moon in size, this image traces thous...

Inside NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the James Webb Space Telescope's Pathfinder backplane test model, is being prepared for its cryogenic test. Previou...

An interview with photographer Michael Soluri, who chronicled the leadup to the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The House Science Committee will mark up a two-year NASA authorization bill on April 30 that would shift funding from Earth sciences and space technology to planetary science and exploration systems. The post House To In...

If you are old enough to remember news stories from 1990 (or if you are a devoted student of astronomy), you'll recall that the Hubble Space Telescope was not always regarded as the technological triumph that NASA is lou...

A backpack strap used by an Apollo 14 astronaut as he moved around the surface of the moon in 1971 has sold at auction for nearly $42,000.

The official Hubble 25th anniversary image was unveiled during a program at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Remarks were made by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directora...

About 45 minutes after the sun sets on Saturday and Sunday, Jupiter and the moon will be visible in the southwest sky, roughly two-thirds of the way up from the horizon to the point directly overhead (called the zenith).

The U.S. Air Force says it will launch an unmanned X-37B spaceplane for a fourth mission no earlier than May 20. The post Launch Date Set for 4th Flight of X-37B Spaceplane appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

Boeing has tapped a former NASA space shuttle manager to take over as program manager for the company's work on the Space Launch System, the company announced April 23. The post Shannon Named Boeing SLS Program Manager a...

By the time Boeing and Lockheed Martin tapped Tory Bruno to take over United Launch Alliance last July, the handwriting was on the wall: ULA was going to need a new rocket if it hoped to remain in business for the long h...

Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm better known for pushing paper than building hardware, is launching a tiny satellite from the International Space Station this summer that could help the U.S. Air Force c...

The star Tau Ceti, which lies just 11.9 light-years from Earth, is thought to host five exoplanets, two of which have been posited to be potentially habitable. But a new study throws some cold water on these worlds' life...

All but one of the five big test facilities at NASA's Plum Brook Station, have few or no customers, and the situation is unlikely to change any time soon, according to a report from NASA's inspector general. The post NAS...

The gigantic welding tool that will piece together the stages of NASA's Space Launch System rocket has been taken apart and will be put back together around August to correct a misalignment that made it impossible to use...

It was an unlikely case, having an Apollo command ship disabled thousands of miles from Earth. But during the Apollo 9 mission, the crew had actually conducted a test of firing the Lunar Module's engines while it was doc...

SpaceX aims to subject a Dragon test vehicle to a "pad abort" trial at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as early as May 5. The unmanned test will demonstrate how Dragon might respond in the event of a launch pr...

Raytheon's selection of a commercial telecommunications satellite owned by SES of Luxembourg to host a GPS-augmentation payload for the U.S. government means that two of the three satellites providing GPS corrections and...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a photo on April 8 that shows the car-size Curiosity rover cruising through a valley called Artist's Drive in the foothills of Mount Sharp.

Kelsea Brennan-Wessels, from ESA's 'Earth From Space' series, leads you through a tour of the United States' peninsula with imagery from the Sentinel 1-A satellite.