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Actress Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed the communications officer Uhura on the iconic science fiction TV series 'Star Trek' has suffered a stroke.

The path to Pluto this summer for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should be relatively smooth and safe, a new and improved portrait of the dwarf planet's moons suggests.

NASA could land astronauts on the Red Planet by 2039 without breaking the bank, provided the space agency takes a stepwise approach that includes a manned 2033 trip to the Mars moon Phobos, according to the research.

The House of Representatives approved an amendment to an appropriations bill June 3 that gives the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office part of a budget increase it requested to keep up with its grow...

NASA's Historic Mission Control in Houston is soon to be even more historic. The space agency's control room, which went active 50 years ago, is being restored to its Apollo-era state to ensure the room is around for man...

Cubesats, the complete satellite platform that fits in a shoebox, offer unique advantages and interesting opportunities. This satellite platform is measured in millimeters and grams, dollars and cents. The post Op-ed | N...

Throw out your textbooks -- there are 10 planets in our solar system.

NASA has awarded Exceed Resources Inc., of Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, a five-year contract to provide administrative and secretarial support services at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston.

After worrisome computer glitches and a miraculous cosmic reboot, the Planetary Society is fairly sure its LightSail test spacecraft successfully raised its side-mounted solar panels Wednesday (June 3), literally clearin...

A spending bill the House passed June 3 would give NOAA about $5 billion for 2016, but not a cent of the $380 million the agency sought to begin work on final three Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft. The pos...

Simulation of Pluto’s moon Nix sped up so that one orbit takes 2 seconds instead of 25 days. Wobbling and tumbling end-over-end like a badly thrown football, Pluto’s moons are in a state of orbital chaos, say scienti...

Situated on the south shore of New Jersey's Shark River lies 37 acres of land known as Camp Evans. On April 1, 2015, I was priviledged to attend the dedication ceremony celebrating Camp Evans' becoming one of only 2532 l...

Gravity binds together three of the dwarf planet's satellites --

Dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Pallas, discovered in 1801 and 1802, are visible in the night sky in June. Ceres was originally classified as a planet, then an asteroid, and finally a dwarf planet after further observati...

NASA is awarding a total of approximately $11.25 million to universities in 15 states to conduct basic research and technology development in areas critical to the agency's mission.

The Space Data Association (SDA), the nonprofit organization of satellite operators that shares space situational awareness data, added Orbcomm and Turksat as members, the association announced June 3. The post Space Dat...

LeoSat LLC, which is planning a global low-orbiting satellite constellation of Ka-band satellites to provide high-speed data transfers using intersatellite links, expects an initial verdict on its system architecture and...

This photograph of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during orbit no. 19, on June 4, 1965, with a Hasselblad camera and a 70mm lens....

NASA is teaming up with Verizon to monitor all the commercial and personal flying drones using the cellphone network.

Every morning at seven, Andrew Welch wakes up, cooks breakfast and checks the rain gauge sitting on a five-foot post in his backyard. He writes down the measurement, sends his kid off to school and then heads out to his....

A galaxy 12.5 billion light-years away gives off the light of 300 trillion suns, because its feeding black hole produces enough heat to set the whole galaxy's dust glowing. Lee Billings... --

A company that has secured customer commitments from South Pacific island nations for a Ka-band satellite broadband delivery project expects to use those preorders to complete a third round of financing and start product...