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SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Satellite broadband ground hardware manufacturer Gilat Satellite Networks on Aug. 12 reported lower revenue and profit, sayin...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The European Space Agency on Aug. 12 signed contracts with industry to produce an upgraded Vega small-satellite launcher for ...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will develop concepts for a kill vehicle capable of taking out multiple objects simultaneously u...

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Aug. 12-13, 2015. The sky maps will help you look for the 'shooting stars' display.

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The sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest part of the observatory--five layers of thin, silvery membrane that must unfurl reliably in space. The precision in which the tennis-court sized sunshield...

Have you been looking up the past few nights, trying to see the Perseid Meteor Shower? Many of our readers have been turning their eyes — and cameras — to the skies, with spectacular results. This year’s Perseids w...

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For many skywatchers across the United States, clear skies and a dark moon will create optimal viewing conditions for tonight's Perseid meteor shower. Clouds will obscure viewing conditions in some areas, however.

Rhiannon Blaauw, of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office -- located at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama -- shares some tips and strategies to best view a meteor shower....

When a comet whizzes past the Sun on Thursday it won't mean certain high-temperature death for a European robot lab riding on the chunk of ice and dust.

Dark skies due to a nearly invisible moon will make this year's Perseid meteor shower--peaking Wednesday and Thursday--an especially star-studded event, astronomers say.

We can finally reveal the truth. A massive conspiracy, spanning over a decade, has been revealed at last by basement bloggers, YouTubers and Facebook users everywhere, implicating 'big-NASA' and the powers that be in a m...

The most consistently reliable meteor shower--the Perseids--peaks tonight. Under clear, dark, unobstructed skies you might see 60 to 100 meteors an hour. And this year, nature is cooperating: The moon is a thin crescent ...

This week, millions of people will turn their eyes to the skies in anticipation of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower. But what happens on less eventful nights, when we find ourselves gazing upward simply to admire the deep,...

Space manufacturing company Made In Space is teaming with NanoRacks, which helps commercial customers make use of the International Space Station, to develop an orbital construction-and-deployment service for tiny satell...

The brightest nova of the century blasted lithium into space at 1.2 million mph (2 million km/h), new research reveals, cracking a long-standing mystery about the universe's chemical balance.

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy. This oxymoronic object could prov...

NASA's Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected two proposals for Phase II awards targeted toward developing new energy storage technologies to replace the battery systems currently used by America's space pr...

The first of the five sunshield layers that will make it possible for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the formation of stars and galaxies created more than 13.5 billion years ago, was delivered to Northrop Gru...

Human Research Program (HRP) Operations: Yui completed his Flight Day 15 (FD15) Biochemical Profile Urine collections. Kelly completed his second of three Journals sessions and his third task observation video for Habita...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. A trade mission to the United States this week organized by the British government seeks to introduce small satellite startup...