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In celebration of the Philae Lander waking up from its long slumber, we take a look back at other spacecraft that have experienced resurrections --

To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, astronomers have developed computer models that examine how ultraviolet radiation from other planets' nearby suns may affect those worlds, according to new re...

The world's first spacecraft thruster with a platinum combustion chamber and nozzle made by 3D printing has passed its baptism of fire with a series of firings lasting more than an hour and 618 ignitions....

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Amazon may be able to deliver products using drones within a year, with the FAA saying it's looking at how to best change its rules to accommodate commercial drone use.

Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction....

A company developing electric propulsion systems suitable for cubesats and other small satellites announced June 17 it has won a $3-million contract from the Defense Department to advance its technology. The post Smallsa...

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The space-funding company Uwingu is offering a deal: Name a Red Planet crater between now and Father's Day (June 21) and receive a decorative certificate, either a downloadable digital version or a printed and framed one...

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry "Butch" Wilmore will be making several stops in the Washington area June 22-26 to share with many audiences their experiences aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Now available is the May 6, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Alessandra Babuscia (NASA JPL) who discussed "Inflatable Antenna for CubeSats"....

The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by University of Colorado Boulder.

ESA and Intelsat agreed to co-invest in a European ground technology provider to build hardware for Intelsat's upcoming high-throughput Epic satellites. The post ESA, Intelsat Co-invest in Newtec Technology for Epic appe...

An international Earth-observing mission launched in 2011 to study the salinity of the ocean surface ended June 8 when an essential part of the power and attitude control system for the SAC-D spacecraft, which carries NA...

Indigenous methane appears to exist in martian rocks --

Kepler-138b is the first world smaller than Earth to have its size and mass measured --

Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Sunnyvale, California, shipped a missile warning sensor May 14 for integration aboard a classified satellite that will operate in highly elliptical orbit, U.S. Air Force officials said in...

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information for a space environment sensor that would operate as a secondary payload aboard a proposed next-generation weather satellite. The post Air Force Seeks Info on Space...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early universe and found strong evidence that examples of the first generation...

A Mars-size planet about 200 light-years from our solar system has turned out to be the lightest known alien world orbiting a normal star, researchers say. It is the first exoplanet smaller than Earth with both its mass ...

The moon is surrounded by a permanent dust cloud likely caused by comet particle collisions, new observations reveal. NASA's LADEE moon dust probe data suggests the lunar dust cloud that is different than that seen by as...

By studying data from the Kepler probe, scientists have found a planet about the size of Mars, about 200 light-years away from Earth.