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Three astronauts who had their stay on the International Space Station extended by a month after a rocket failure are set to land back on Earth on June 11, the head of Russia's space agency said Friday.

Bad weather led the US space agency to postpone until Friday the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, with the view of one day using it to land on Mars.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's RoboSimian - an apelike robot that is able to map its environment in 3D - will participate in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals today and tomorrow (June 6).

This 'cathedral' to the U.S. space race, dormant for 23 years, will be restored in time to commemorate the first moon landing's half-century anniversary --

NASA has awarded a contract to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland for support of various science programs and projects at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.

A new space-to-ground communication system allows astronauts to 'feel' objects that are hundreds of kilometers away. Years of research went into making this historic handshake possible.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week we welcome Stephen Fowler, who is the Creative Director at InfoAge, the organization behind refurbishing the TIROS 1 dish and the Science History Learning Center and Mu...

The nonprofit Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft has not communicated with Earth since Wednesday afternoon (June 3), shortly after an apparently successful solar-panel deployment, mission team members said.

Space Systems Loral (SSL) and its customer, PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) of Indonesia, have found a companion payload to share the launch of the PSN-6 satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2017. The post Fal...

NASA Breaking News:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A Russian Soyuz booster rocket has successfully launched a satellite for the first time since a much-publicized failure in April.

Yesterday (June 4, 2015), my wife and I went biking. I wanted to show her a place I love to go, not far from Longmont, Colorado, a town north of Boulder. We put the bikes in our truck and headed over that way, enjoying a...

U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), a first-term House member whose distrct includes NASA's Johnson Space Center, will take over as chairman of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee. The post Babin To Take O...

The United Arab Emirates' UAE Space Agency is aiming to launch its first mission to Mars by 2021, and has unveiled a full strategy for space exploration.

SpaceX is planning to launch a series of experimental low Earth orbit communications satellites starting next year to test technologies for a future low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation the company announced ear...

The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, or SMILE, mission would be launched in 2021 pending final approval late this year by the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The post Scientis...

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image on March 30, 2015....

Airbus Defence and Space on June 5 unveiled the product of what it said was a five-year effort to design a reusable Ariane rocket first-stage engine and avionics package, an project company officials said was stimulated ...

"Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball). A cave woman ...

Despite earlier optimism, the Planetary Society postponed the planned June 5 deployment of the LightSail spacecraft's solar sail after communications with the craft fell silent for the second time June 4. The post LightS...