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NASA's Launch Services Program has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for new commercial Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) for small satellites, often called CubeSats or nanosatellites, and experiments on science mis...

Japan's space agency JAXA has announced its intention to send a spacecraft to one of Mar's moons, collect a sample from its surface and then return to Earth to allow for analyzing the sample. If successful, it would be t...

They wouldn't float like balloons or give you the chance to talk in high, squeaky voices, but planets with helium skies may constitute an exotic planetary class in our Milky Way galaxy....

A low-cost telescope that takes its inspiration from Galileo -- the famed Italian astronomer who discovered the moons of Jupiter in the 16th century -- is once again available to celebrate the United Nations 2015 Interna...

NASA has awarded a contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide business, administrative and technical support services to the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC).

When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars - a stationary lander in 2016 - the flight will include two CubeSats. This will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space. If this flyby demonstration ...

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 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program Participants: Michael Prokosch (Seeing Stars Blog, MikeProkosch@shsuobservatory) Tim Spuck ([email protected]) ...

Virgin America is testing out Android-based in-flight entertainment, but it isn't the only airline to offer passengers entertainment options.

NASA and university scientists will discuss at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday June 16, astrobiology research activities and technology that are advancing the search for evidence of habitability in our solar system and beyond. The b...

Before a Soyuz space capsule returned NASA astronaut Terry Virts to Earth Thursday (June 11), he took time out in space to photograph the Earth below, capturing spectacular vistas of the Pyramids of Egypt, our home plane...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), frustrated that the satellite industry appears incapable of defending its own interests, is calling on ITU governments to submit letters attesting to the importance of sat...

On June 1, 2015, photographer Nicolaus Wegner was in South Dakota and saw a rare sight: a stationary supercell. Normally these system move, blown by winds, but this huge rotating thunderstorm squatted over the landscape ...

After struggling for years to hitch rides to orbit, companies and organizations developing small satellites now say it's easier for them to pick and choose from a growing number of launch options. The post Smallsat Devel...

This image from Sentinel-1A's radar brings us over Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo....

J.L. Pickering usually doesn't take kindly to books that claim "never before seen" NASA photos. One half of the team behind the new title "Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini," he's almost assuredly a...

Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos landed their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 9:44 a.m. EDT. Russian recovery teams will help the crew...

Two tiny cubesats, the first NASA plans to send to another planet, will keep watch on the agency's InSight mission as it descends to the Martian surface in September 2016, an agency official said June 9. The post In NASA...

A new kind of spacecraft that sails on sunlight has just been successfully deployed above Earth. The LightSail satellite yesterday overcame a series of glitches to unfurl its solar sails, a propulsion system that's entir...

When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars a stationary lander in 2016 the flight will include two CubeSats....

Following the lead of its House counterpart, the Senate Appropriations Committee is recommending no funding next year for the U.S. Air Force's legacy weather satellite program, casting doubt on the service's plan to laun...

Now available is the April 29, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Andy Cheng (JHU) who discussed "AIDA Planetary Defense Demonstration"....