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The United Launch Alliance is set to refresh its commitment to the BE-4 rocket developed by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin aerospace company. The commitment could put the ULA on track to developing a fully American-made rocket ...

A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket on Sept. 11 successfully placed two European Galileo satellites into orbit.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has finally set a launch date for the massive Falcon Heavy rocket. The launch should occur in spring 2016, taking place a few months before another launch that will bring 37 satellites into space.

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock....

The elephant in the room at many space conferences, the subject everyone acknowledges but no one touches, is of course the money -- whence it comes, where it goes. Not so at Euroconsult's annual World Satellite Business ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered a unique object - two massive stars with magnetic fields in a binary system. Around 1/3 of stars in our Galaxy are thought to be in binary systems, where two or more s...

The film "The Martian" takes the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and extends it into fiction set in the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface....

One of the best innovative uses of remote cameras is when space agencies strap them onto the sides of rockets. It's probably the closest most of us will ever get to seeing what it's like to hitch a ride into space. On Ap...

The head of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return probe plans to crowdfund an outreach budget for the mission on Kickstarter by selling a card game."

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft beamed home incredible new images of Pluto, scientists found a giant buried ice sheet on Mars and Elon Musk chatted with Stephen Colbert about the future of spaceflight. Here are Space.com'...

(University of Leeds) Astronomers have successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time.