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The biggest challenges facing the private Mars One colonization project are financial rather than technical, so a big donation from a deep-pocketed person concerned about his or her legacy could make a huge difference, g...

Commercial space stations could become a reality within the next 10 years if entrepreneurs and NASA can properly manage the tricky transition from the government-run International Space Station to privately built and ope...

Modern telescopes and satellites have helped us measure the blazing hot temperatures of the sun from afar. Mostly the temperatures follow a clear pattern: The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen in its core, so the la...

Half of the residents of the International Space Station will take a spin around their orbital neighborhood in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft on Friday, Aug. 28. NASA Television coverage will begin at 2:45 a.m. EDT.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Despite passing legislation that would extend key provisions of commercial launch law, the House and Senate have yet to start...

The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the small world's features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres' tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractur...

The Milky Way forms a spectacular streak past the curving edge of an observation tower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in these amazing views by a talented astrophotographer, who likened the vista to the Jetso...

"The Martian" starring Matt Damon, based on the book by Andy Weir, puts survival by science front and center. A software programmer by day, Weir looked to the online community to research and tweak his fascinating narrat...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. NASA began an early feasibility study for missions to the distant, mostly-ignored ice-giants Uranus and Neptune, a senior age...

A lonely mountain and other stunning features that dot the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres appear in amazing detail in new images from the Dawn spacecraft.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers).

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force said he does not envision the Defense Department relinquishing control of Air Force ...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Making a difference can be measured in any number of ways: triumph, budget, policy, inspiration, influence or vision. All of ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Taytay Crater is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 0 .37° N and 19.65° W. It is 18.4 km in diameter and was named after Taytay Philippines....

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Goni after it moved out of the East China Sea and north into the Sea of Japan....

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) was bolted into place on the International Space Station's Earth-facing port of the Harmony module at 10:02 a.m. EDT....

Everything that is changing around and within us - from the relatively simple motion of celestial bodies, to weather and complex biological processes - is a dynamical system. A large part of science is guessing the laws ...

NASA Dawn mission has returned a high resolution image from 915 miles above the surface of Ceres revealing a 4-mile-high mountain with brightly streaked slopes. Dawn captured the area, located in the southern hemisphere,...

NASA spacecraft watched closely in 2005 as a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season yielded 27 named storms, including the devastating Hurricane Katrina.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The mountain, located in the southern hemisphere, stands 4 miles (6 kilometers) high....

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Boeing Co. on Monday told its workers that it expected to cut as many as "several hundred" jobs in its satellite business thr...