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"It's a competition that I wish wasn't occurring, but it is. And if we're threatened in space, we have the right of self-defense, and we'll make sure we can execute that right," Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Air For...

The U.S. Air Force is sharing what service officials have described as "eye-watering" data from its missile warning satellites with the intelligence community as part of a wider effort to maximize exploitation of the sys...

Very soon, probably on 30 April, a half-tonne spacecraft will plough into the surface of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, at about 4km/s or nearly 9,000mph. The spacecraft is NASA's MESSENGER ("MErcury Surface, Sp...

No matter how beautiful or crystal clear the bubbling waters of an oasis may be, they seldom lead to technology breakthroughs. Yet, NASA's OASIS investigation's bubbles may lead to an ocean of new improvements in our tec...

Movie nights aboard the International Space Station have just received a major upgrade with the launch of the first projection screen designed for use in microgravity.

Calling the Obama Administration's 2016 budget request for NASA "too skimpy," the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee said April 27 she would seek to provide additional funding to the agency. The post Mik...

Go in depth on StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson's TV talk show about science, with Space.com television producer and science journalist Dave Brody.

Rep. Mac Thornberry recommended that the Air Force spend $185 million next year on activities leading to an American-made replacement for the RD-180, the main engine on United Launch Alliance's workhorse Atlas 5 rocket. ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSAT satellite into orbit for Turkmenistan and Thales Alenia Space on April 27, 2015. See the ramp up to the mission in photos in our photo gallery here.

A suspected problem on an unidentified Boeing-built satellite caused Boeing to postpone the scheduled April 30 launch of Mexico's large Centenario mobile-communications satellite until the company is sure that Centenario...

NASA has awarded the Entry Systems Technology Research and Development (ESTRAD) contract to Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., a small business in Hampton, Virginia.

NASA has awarded 26 grants totaling $9.9 million to help bolster the capacity and competitiveness of 28 states and territories (jurisdictions) in the area of technology research and development.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) have found a long-sought "missing link" between supernova explosions that generate gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and those that don't. The scientists f...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Call it a rocket builder's Vulcan death grip. There appears to be a bit of a row between United Launch Alliance's just announced new Vulcan rocket and the Paul Allen Vulcan Aerospace enterprise, the big and bold Stratola...

CNES awarded Airbus Defence and Space a contract worth 30 million euros to build the spacecraft platform and perform payload integration for the French-German Merlin methane-monitoring satellite. The post Airbus To Build...

A team of Russian researchers are using the Altai Optical Laser Center (AOLC) near Savvushka, Russia to image from the ground various spacecraft. The intent of their work is to help solve problems in space surveillance.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

A research team has published some intriguing work in Nature Geoscience regarding transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater on Mars - the exploration zone of NASA's Curiosity rover.

Statements from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Dr. Dava Newman on Monday's Senate confirmation of Newman as the new NASA Deputy Administrator.

The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or NExSS, will take a multidisciplinary approach to the hunt for alien life, NASA officials said.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit today, carrying a Turkmenistan communications satellite. The 90-minute launch window opens at 22:14 UTC Monday night (6:14 p.m. Eastern time). You can watch the ...