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Apax Partners of France is negotiating to buy Airbus Defence and Space's mobile satellite communications services division, which Apax sold to Airbus in 2011. The post Apax Looks Set to Repurchase Airbus Mobile Satcom Un...

The willingness of United Launch Alliance's parent companies to fund a next-generation rocket hinges on winning relief from the ban on the Russian-made engine that powers its current government workhorse, the Atlas 5. Th...

A manned mission to Pluto may be far out, but it's not impossible.

NASA announced Thursday two opportunities for public-private partnerships to achieve the agency's goals of expanding capabilities and opportunities in space. Through both solicitations, NASA is seeking industry-developed...

A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belong...

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The latest image to be revealed of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comes from October 27, 2014, before the Philae lander even departed for its surface. Above we get a view of a dramatically-shadowed cliff separating two ...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest:Dr. Rhys Taylor, Former Arecibo Post Doc; Current research involves looking for galaxies in the 21cm waveband. Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Aless...

The International Space Station Program will take the next step in expanding a robust commercial market in low-Earth orbit when work continues Wednesday, May 27, to prepare the orbiting laboratory for the future arrival ...

The world of tomorrow is a pretty wonderful place ... at least that's the sentiment of the makers of Disney's new epic: 'Tomorrowland.'

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The mysterious white spots on the surface of Ceres are definitely reflecting sunlight, scientists announced. You can submit your guess for what the spots might be in a poll on the Dawn mission website.

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When we look up at the night sky, it's easy to feel as though the stars we see have always been, and always will be, there. But just like ourselves, stars are born and die.

ISS nadir point: 28.4° N, 84.5° E Date taken: 2015.05.16 Time taken: 20:27:51 GMT...

Scott Kelly, NASA's One-Year crew member, flawlessly released the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the grips of the Canadarm2 at 7:04 a.m. EDT this morning. Mission Control in Houston had earlier commanded the station's 57....

Our sun regularly pelts the Earth with all kinds of radiation and charged particles. How bad can these solar storms get?

The space agency wants to avoid a repeat of what has happened with two of its Earth Explorer missions, ADM-Aeolus and EarthCare. The post Cost, Schedule Woes on 2 Lidar Missions Push ESA To Change Contract Procedures app...

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover's "ChemCam" instrument just got a major capability fix, as Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists uploaded a software repair for the auto-focus system on the instrument.