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They say big things come in small packages, and that's evident with the small satellites that are becoming ubiquitous around NASA centers, university labs and even elementary school science classes....

NASA has selected URS Federal Technical Services, Inc. of Germantown, Maryland, an AECOM company, to fulfill the KSC Propellants and Life Support Services Contract (KPLSS) at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Fl...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Europe's Rosetta spacecraft, which for 12 months has been riding alongside a comet making its way toward the sun, on Aug. 13 ...

After more than a year orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Rosetta spacecraft and its dance partner will get to the closest point to the sun today (Aug. 13).

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The number of small satellites launched in 2015 is likely to fall short of the growth predicted in recent forecasts because o...

The agency performed a nearly 9-minute-long "hot fire" test of an RS-25 engine -- four of which will power the core stage of the Space Launch System megarocket -- at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi today (Aug. 13).

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver: A lightning rod f...

A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could provide a new understanding of how planets formed around our sun.

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NASA has awarded its Langley Information Technology Enhanced Services II (LITES II) contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Virginia for information technology (IT) services at the ag...

NASA has selected Alcyon Technical Services JV, LLC of Huntsville, Alabama to provide technical information, administrative and logistics support services at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

The European space probe Rosetta captured a range of scientific data Thursday as it trailed an ancient comet past the Sun which could help scientists better understand the origins of life on Earth.

The Björn Borg fashion brand's upcoming Spring/Summer 2016 (SS16) show is a tribute to Mars One, a privately funded project that aims to land four people on the Red Planet in 2027 as the vanguard of a permanent colony.

Astronomers have detected the smallest alien planet yet to be directly photographed by a telescope on Earth, a methane-shrouded gas giant much like a young Jupiter. The planet 51 Eridani b orbits a star 96 light-years fr...

Is this new exoplanet what Jupiter looked like as a baby?

A planet only 20 million years old and still hot from its creation has been photographed in a solar system 96 light-years from Earth.

The Gemini Planet Imager has discovered and photographed its first planet, a methane-enshrouded gas giant much like Jupiter that may hold the key to understanding how large planets form in the swirling accretion disks ar...

The newfound planet is 96 light years away, but it's the closest twin to Jupiter astronomers have ever directly seen --

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SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. U.S. Defense Department officials would prefer that industry share the cost of developing a new rocket main engine, but are w...

For over a year, Google has used a government exemptive waiver to test out its commercial drones for Project Wing, with help from NASA.

The X-37B spacecraft launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on May 20, kicking off a mission dubbed OTV-4 (short for Orbital Test Vehicle-4).