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SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. U.S. Defense Department leaders want the Missile Defense Agency to lower the notional cost of stopping an incoming strike. Th...

A NASA-funded sounding rocket is getting ready to launch to give insight into one of the biggest mysteries in solar physics--the fact the sun's atmosphere is some 1,000 times hotter than its surface. The mission, develop...

Using a Cessna 172 dropped from a height of 100 feet, NASA's Search and Rescue Mission Office will simulate a severe but survivable plane accident Wednesday, Aug. 26 to test emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). NASA Te...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Commercial space transportation company Blue Origin said Aug. 24 that it will make an announcement in Florida in September wi...

Fifty years ago, two NASA astronauts were more than one-third of the way through what was to be the world's longest space mission at the time. Gordo Cooper and Pete Conrad chose while setting yet another American first i...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:33 a.m EDT on Aug. 24, 2015....

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines.....

Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface....

Watch the Milky Way rise above the King Range in California in this breathtaking time-lapse sequence.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured an image of the flare, which erupted at 3:33 a.m. EDT (0733 GMT) this morning from a sunspot known as active region 2403.

NASA has signed an extension of its contract with Raytheon Company in Houston to provide support for training facilities at the agency's Johnson Space Center, also in Houston.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. To keep up with growing demand, Hispasat plans to expand its fleet of seven satellites now in orbit to 10 in 2017. The post H...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The U.S. Army's efforts to field a rocket for launching small, low-orbiting satellites on short notice continue to come up em...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Skywatcher Stephen Ippolito captured this image of a harbor seal and the Milky Way while stargazing at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park in Maine.

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock.

The ancient lunar surface once erupted with geysers of lava -- and now, scientists think they know what caused these fiery fountains.

The second ice age during the Cryogenian period was not followed by the sudden and chaotic melting-back of the ice as previously thought, but ended with regular advances and retreats of the ice, according to research pub...

The first manned space flight from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, currently under construction in the Russian far east, has been pushed back seven years to 2025, Russia's space agency told AFP on Monday.

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:33 a.m EDT on Aug. 24, 2015. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of ...

An astronomer and amateur musician has coaxed a haunting melody from a star's distinctive twinkle.

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.