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Boeing's CST-100 commercial crew transportation vehicle, now known as 'Starliner' will occupy NASA's new Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

While the main thrust of the Europa mission, which NASA aims to launch by the mid-2020s, involves characterizing the icy satellite from afar during dozens of flybys, the space agency is considering sending a small probe ...

Researchers probing the heart of a massive-star-forming region found an intricate surprise: an unusual hourglass structure shaped by multiple jets of gas. Those jets suggest the structure hides two bulky newborn stars at...

If Scott Kelly were aboard a spaceship on its way to Mars, rather than on the International Space Station where has been for the last six months, he would be arriving at the Red Planet just about now.

When we think of space satellites that assist with communications, weather monitoring and GPS here on Earth, we likely picture them as being quite largemany are as big as a school bus and weigh several tons....

It's safe to say the market has missed having the Russian rocket as a reliable and readily available launch option. SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry.

On Sept. 7th, 2015, European astronaut Andreas Mogensen - orbiting 240+ miles up and flying at 17,000+ mph - placed a peg in a hole on Earth; a demonstration of teleoperation using a force-feedback controlled machine sys...

Researchers tested two "hedgehog" robot prototypes this summer to get an idea of the machines' potential to explore space locations inaccessible to conventional rovers.

Astronomers from the University of California, Irvine and Baltimore's Space Telescope Science Institute have generated the most accurate statistical description yet of faint, early galaxies as they existed in the univers...

Arizona-based World View Enterprises announced today that it's introducing a cost-sharing system that will let researchers loft their experiments to near space, about 130,000 feet (39,600 meters) above Earth, via a ballo...

At a time when other maritime satcom providers are lamenting the decline in offshore energy markets and tighter purse strings among the big government customers -- especially the U.S. government -- SpeedCast is predictin...

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If you see a bright light just above the horizon at sunrise, don't panic! It's not a UFO -- it's probably just Venus.

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are pleased to announce the United Nations/Japan Cooperation Programme on CubeSat Deployment from the Internati...

Space debris is a growing problem. These little bits of orbiting junk--tools dropped by astronauts during EVAs, nuts and bolts from the deployment of satellites, and so on--are moving a dozen times faster than a rifle bu...

Small bodies have low gravity, presenting a challenge for exploration. Rovers can't roll without traction. Stanford University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing two robotic 'cubes with spikes' that can ...

Scott Kelly, ISS CDR., captured these geomagnetic storm signatures on September 7th, 2015, tweeting: "My gift to you on #LaborDay, #USA. Enjoy! #YearInSpace." The Orion constellation and the Pleiades star cluster can be ...

NASA is another small step closer to sending astronauts on a journey to Mars. On Saturday, engineers at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans welded together the first two segments of the Orion crew modul...

Putting a round peg in a round hole is not hard for someone standing next to it. But ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen did this while orbiting 400 km up aboard the International Space Station, remotely operating a rover and...

Have you ever wondered what is in the RAS apartments at Burlington House? On Saturday 19 September 2015 we will be opening our doors to the public so they can look around this magnificent building. The RAS entrance hall...

The dawn sky’s where it’s happening. With Saturn swiftly sinking westward at dusk, bright planets have become scarce in the evening hours. But if you get up early and look east, you’ll discover where the party is. ...

A new active stereo 3-D show at The Planetarium at UT Arlington will transform learning for students and planetarium visitors interested in exploring the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.