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NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has issued a call to American industry for innovative ideas on how the agency could obtain a core advanced solar electric propulsion-based spacec...

A briefing was held at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Oct. 22 to preview two upcoming spacewalks by U.S. astronauts aboard the International Space Station....

For the first time ever, NASA invited the public to attend its Innovation Expo, a traditionally employees-only event. This year's expo was designed to teach people how NASA aims to get boots on Mars by the end of the 203...

In this silent films from the records of the United States Air Force, parts of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) spacecraft are showcased by men in white coats.

New Horizons, which in July performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto, fired up its engines yesterday (Oct. 22) in the first of four maneuvers designed to send the probe zooming past a small object called 2014 MU69 on Jan....

NASA has awarded the NASA Research Education Support Service (NRESS) contract to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc. of Beltsville, Maryland.

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

Aquarius, an easily overlooked star pattern with a storied history, will appear to the south during the evening this week.

Scientists begin yearlong Red Planet simulation at Mauna Loa --

The European Commission and the U.S. government have reached an agreement under which U.S. agencies will have free access to Europe's Copernicus environment-monitoring satellite constellation. SpaceNews.com

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Matthew Golombek, JPL Project Scientist for MER, and working on the NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Discovery...

Several space pioneers are slated to share their experiences later this month regarding the Cold War Air Force program: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL).

Comet Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol as well as a type of sugar into space, according to new observations by an international team. The discovery marks the first time ethyl alcohol, th...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

This composite image of category 5 Hurricane Patricia, off the Pacific coast of Mexico, is from 06:00 UTC on Friday, 23 October 2015....

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the first in a series of four initial targeting maneuvers designed to send it toward 2014 MU69 - a small Kuiper Belt object about a billion miles beyond Pluto, which the spa...

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has begun environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado. OSI...

An exceptionally rare watch worn by an American astronaut on the Moon which bears remnants of lunar material has sold for more than $1.6 million, a US auction house said Friday.

PARIS -- Europe's largest commercial airliner, Lufthansa, on Oct. 20 contracted with mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat to use Inmarsat's Ka-band Global Xpress satellite service on Lufthansa's European fleet. Un...

The object, called WT1190F, was observed using the University of Hawaii 2.2-metre telescope on Oct. 9th, 2015. It is thought to be a spent upper stage rocket body.

The only privately-owned watch to be worn on the moon's surface sold for $1.6 million, setting what is believed to be a new record for the most-ever paid for a piece of astronaut memorabilia.