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Astronomers have been arguing over just how many spiral arms our galaxy exhibits. Is the Milky Way a four or two-armed spiral galaxy? Astronomers had often assumed the Milky Way was potentially a four-armed spiral galaxy...

Commercially focused satellite imagery firms that have emerged on a wave of Silicon Valley venture capital could gain a major U.S. government customer as early as 2017: the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. T...

If you've been a fan of NASA's website for more than a decade, you can thank an unlikely space geek: actor Tom Cruise. The post How Tom Cruise Cast Himself in an Unlikely Role With NASA appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

The SpaceUp Foundation is getting ready to launch it’s first KickStarter fundraising campaign - “Sci-Five: Five SpaceUps for 2015.” The Foundation’s goal is to bring more awesome people (space geeks) together to ...

An inflatable drone could cruise the sulfurous skies of Venus next decade if Northrop Gruman can sell NASA on the mission.

A Singapore-based team called Titans Creations spent two months planning and building the model, which measures 43.3 inches by 33.5 inches (110 by 85 centimeters) and contains so many bricks that team members lost count.

An ongoing investigation into a failed Progress mission to the International Space Station will postpone both the return of three people currently on the station and the launch of their replacements, NASA announced May 1...

Engineers are partnering this month at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to remove and analyze some 180 small squares of an ablative material called Avcoat -- the outer coating of the heat shield that protected the Orion...

The Owens Valley Wavelength Array has captured 24 hours of sky, revealing our Universe in a different light. Radio astronomers 'see' the sky; visible light astronomers must dodge the Sun.

Russian space officials say they have decided to delay both the landing of some of the International Space Station's crew and the launch of their successors due to the recent failed launch of an unmanned Russian cargo sh...

The company that put the 'cup' in the first space cup of coffee now wants to put one in your hands. IRPI, the makers of the 'Space Cups' now used on the International Space Station, launched a crowdfunding campaign to pr...

The Andromeda galaxy -- the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way -- is about six times larger and 1,000 times more massive than previously thought, new observations show.

In theory, the consortium would use Aerojet's AR-1 engine to replace the Russian-made RD-180 on the Atlas 5. But ULA says it has "no intention of selling or transferring" the rights. The post Aerojet on Team Seeking Atla...

Remember the wonderful Galileoscopes that were developed in 2009 for the International Year of Astronomy? This high-quality, low-cost telescope kit is back for the 2015 International Year of Light (IYL), and new inventor...

NASA and its international partners have delayed the landing of Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti until early June after learning new details about the recent crash of Russia's robotic Progress 59 ...

NASA and the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) are partnering to cosponsor the 2015 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Convention: A New Era in Avia...

The House Science Committee plans to take up four commercial space bills May 13, including legislation to extend key provisions of commercial launch law and to provide property rights to companies carrying out asteroid m...

NASA and its international partners agreed Tuesday to set a new schedule for spacecraft traffic to and from the International Space Station.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's mission on the International Space Station has been extended until the beginning of June. It was planned to end this week with a return to Earth together with NASA astronaut Terry V...

NASA experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation. Sea salt on Europa's surface suggests ...

A large piece of a space shuttle launch pad has landed on temporary display, where the public may catch sight of it. The gantry arm that for 30 years served as the walkway into the space shuttles has been moved outside a...