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The quest for potentially habitable planets is often interpreted as the search for an Earth twin. And yet, some rocky planets outside our Solar System may in fact be more promising candidates for further research. Scient...

Saudi Arabia's newest communications satellite, the Lockheed Martin-built Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, will not only be one of the most powerful ever built, it will be among the most agile thanks to new flexible payload t...

Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan. The mission saw a cosmonaut clock up more days in space than any other human being, the launch...

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.

Halfway into a year in space--the longest ever attempted at the International Space Station--American astronaut Scott Kelly said Monday he misses fresh air but is adapting well.

Russia on Monday successfully launched a Proton rocket, carrying a Russian telecoms satellite, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the second successful launch since the disastrous loss of a Mexican satellite i...

A satellite glimpsed yesterday's (Sept. 13) partial solar eclipse three times from space. Viewers in South Africa saw it just once, and tracked their experience in new skywatching photos.

A partial solar eclipse occurred on Sept. 13, 2015. See photos from the event by skywatchers in South Africa and a satellite in space.

NASA and Honeywell are starting the 11th year of their "FMA Live! Forces in Motion" show with a fall 2015 tour designed to ignite students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Not surprisingly, U.S. presidential candidates' stances on taxes, the economy and national security resound more with voters than space policy. However, space policy remains a germane topic for candidates to consider. Sp...

NASA has selected Mainthia Technologies, Inc., of Cleveland to provide on-site support services for operations and maintenance for the central process systems recertification and pressure vessels and systems at the agenc...

The gravity of the Earth is a tough thing to escape, but breaking free from the gravity of the Sun is on a whole other level. But humans have achieved this amazing accomplishment, and right now there are several spacecra...

The company's congressional detractors have taken the offensive in the wake of the June 28 failure of its Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore's law which states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Geneticists, Alexei Sharo...

Steve Skladanek of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services said customers remain interested in the pricey rocket because of its high reliability and schedule assurance. SpaceNews.com

Something strange is happening on Io: The Jupiter moon's vigorous volcanoes are mysteriously offset from where scientists expected, and its underground magma oceans may be the cause.

We probably will not see the Millennium Falcon in the sky anytime soon. However, an actual R2-D2-themed airplane is the next best thing.

ESA's Earth-orbiting Proba-2 satellite observed three partial solar eclipses on the morning of 13 September 2015 along with an additional passage of the Moon close to the edge of the Sun....

The Soyuz TMA-16M carrying Expedition 44 crew member Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency undocked from the ...

Media are invited to speak with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Wednesday, Sept. 16 during the second annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Partnerships M...

ESA's Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite experienced three partial solar eclipses on 13 September 2015....

In 2013, this part of Bahia State in Brazil included just a single center-pivot irrigation circle....