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A new material that heals itself has been created by scientists, consisting of a liquid resin sandwiched between two solid panels. Once a hole in a solid panel has been made, the liquid reacts with oxygen in the air to p...

NASA has awarded a contract to Harkins Contracting Inc. of Salisbury, Maryland, for the construction of a new Mission Launch Command Center (MLCC) at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia.

On 9 September, the first of 12 men will go to bed for 60 days as part of important research into stopping the wasting effects that spaceflight has on the human body. Although they may be putting their feet up, it is set...

Space weather events that have been building over the last week continued to affect Earth early this morning (Aug. 28), increasing the possibility of enhanced aurora sightings near the North and South poles.

Stuart Robbins helped plan the New Horizons' mission as a post-doc student at the Southwest Research Institute. He "strived from realism" when he plotted the Pluto system with his 3D software and "attached a camera" to t...

If NASA reviewers concur, the ex-Pluto probe will begin 4 maneuvers in late October/early November 2015 to be directed to the icy object 2014 MU69. New Horizon's principal investigator believes it's the kind of ancient (...

Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka took the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft out for a ride to change parking spaces. The "brief flyover and redocking" occurred on August 28th, 2015.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Summer is the season to watch for ice loss from the outlet glaciers lining the perimeter of Greenland. JakobshavnGreenland's fastest-moving glacieris notorious for such losses; in 2014 the glacier shed kilometers of ice ...

Rainbow jets of gas blast away from twin dying stars in the Hubble Space Telescope's vivid new shot of the Twin Jet Nebula.

The six-person Expedition 44 space station crew is getting ready to expand to nine people next week. A docked Soyuz vehicle will be moved early Friday morning making room for a new Soyuz spacecraft carrying Sergei Volkov...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. AsiaSat blamed market conditions and slow licensing approvals for two new satellites for an 8 percent sales drop for the six ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers have found evidence for a faded electron cloud "coming back to life," much like the mythical phoenix, after two galaxy clusters collided. This "radio phoenix," so-called because the high-energy electrons radi...

One of the things I love best is when someone looks through a telescope for the first time. Even better when it's a kid; a simple glance through the eyepiece, a single moment, and a lifetime of joy and wonder is theirs. ...

It seems as if the planets are fleeing the evening sky, just as the Fall school star party season is getting underway. Venus and Mars have entered the morning sky, and Jupiter reaches solar conjunction this week. Even gl...

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Orbital ATK is on the rebound with return to flight of their Antares rocket slated in early 2016 following the catastrophic launch failure that doomed the last Antares in October 2014 on a resupply mission for NASA to th...

Russia on Friday successfully launched a Proton rocket with a British satellite in the first such launch since an engine failure in May resulted in a Mexican satellite being destroyed.

The vast Kuiper Belt, which orbits at the outer edge of our solar system, has been the site of many exciting discoveries in the past decade or so. Otherwise known as the Trans-Neptunian region, small bodies have been dis...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Emerging companies in the space industry, ranging from launch vehicle developers to satellite services providers, have raised...