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Is NASA's Space Launch System a flying piece of congressional pork or our best shot at getting humans to deep space? --

ESA's goal of removing a derelict satellite from orbit is picking up pace, as a mission design is assembled to be put before European ministers next year for approval.

Samantha Cristoforetti: Written by Milan school children in their 1st language: #DareToFly! No matter where you're from & where life took you....

NASA's William Borucki just won the $1 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his work discovering extrasolar planets. Not bad considering that Borucki and his planet-hunting Kepler telescope were in NASA's dog house two ye...

In the first-ever demonstration of space-to-ground remote control with live video and force feedback, NASA astronaut Terry Virts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station shook hands with ESA telerobotics special...

Although spokesman John Taylor wouldn't confirm it, SpaceX has agreed to retrieve the Falcon 9 fairing that washed up on the tiny Bahamian island of Elbow Cay in late May, people familiar with the matter said. The post S...

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Today: Fluid Shifts: Fluid Shift operations continued today in the Russian Service Module (SM). Kelly was the first to don the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP/Chibis) device while Kornienko, with ground support in Mos...

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Our servicemen and women only want results, in the form of maximum capability, flexibility and resiliency. The post Op-ed | U.S. Forces Need Unified Satcom, not Status Quo appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

The spacecraft will not revisit the battered, porous moon before its mission concludes in 2017 --

The potato-shaped Plutonian moon Nix has been found to have an irregular spin. Its odd shape plays a part in its motion according to NASA. It's not a loner though, one of Pluto's other moons, Hydra, also shares the same ...

Pluto's moons are even stranger and more intriguing than scientists had imagined, observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal.

If you lived on one of Pluto's moons Nix or Hydra, you'd have a hard time setting your alarm clock. That's because you could not know for sure when, or even in which direction, the sun would rise....

Much ink has been spilled over Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet. And yet, such discussions have not diminished scientific interest in Earth's most distant cousin. A new study is the first to reveal fascinating ...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Does water drain in different directions in different hemispheres? You've almost certainly heard about this before. The idea was used as the basis for an episode of The Simpsons, about toilets flushing the opposite way i...

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If you lived on one of Pluto's moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows that two of ...

Ed White’s first foray into the vacuum of space on June 3, 1965 set the stage for future spacewalks to assemble stations and repair telescopes --

Paving the way for Apollo's missions to the moon, the Gemini program provided much-needed experience for astronauts in space.

50 years ago, astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space. There's more to White's spacewalk than the floating feat alone.