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The U.S. Navy's fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-4) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, is talking from space to the satellite control team at the Naval Spacecraft Operations Control facility here after its Flo...

The return to flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, in a couple of months, will also be the first launch of an upgraded version of the vehicle.

The space-based action shows "Killjoys" and "Dark Matter" will both be getting second seasons in 2016, the Syfy network announced this week.

The radar instrument on NASA's $916 million Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft stopped returning data on July 7, a few months after the satellite began its science mission. The SMAP team now views the instrum...

In a survey of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images of 2,753 young, blue star clusters in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31), astronomers have found that M31 and our own galaxy have a similar percentage of newborn st...

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NASA is working to develop laser-based communications systems that will allow far-flung spacecraft to beam data home far faster than previously possible.

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.

Physically, not too much has changed on Denali, North America's highest peak. What did change in 2015 is how people describe and measure Alaska's majestic mountain....

Follow the entire 10-day mission of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen to the International Space Station with behind-the-scenes info on the iriss blog

Technology created to remove plant-killing ethylene from International Space Station crop growing experiments has been applied to an air purification system on Earth.

New "Star Wars" toys will be revaled at 12:01 am Friday (Sept. 4), and the Times Square Toys 'R' Us is counting down with an entire day of "Star Wars" activities.

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 Ben Honey: A young flight controller for the International Spac...

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SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. A NASA satellite launched in January to measure global soil-moisture levels will do so without its primary radar, which faile...

A so-called "floating spoon" on Mars spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover is cooking up a storm on the Internet, but it's actually a cool rock formation sculpted over time by the Martian winds, officials with the space agen...

"Wormholes" are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe, and have been popularised by the dissemination of theoretical physics and by works of science fiction like Stargate, Star Trek or, more...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) is unmoved by Air Force assurances that it is keeping close tabs SpaceX's rocket failure inv...

Three crew members are orbiting Earth getting ready to dock to the International Space Station early Friday in their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. Meanwhile, the six residents on the orbital laboratory are exploring human re...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The European GNSS Agency said the L-band navigation payload on the SES-5 is performing well and will replace the payload on a...

Come and see how images of Earth from space show how science meets art at a new exhibition at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria

After a two-day flight in space, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov will arrive at the International Space Station on 4 September. Watch live from 07:20 GMT (09:20 CEST)