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Three space station crew members made a rare nighttime return to Earth, safely landing in Kazakhstan after 141 days off the planet. Oleg Kononenko, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui touched down on board Russia's Soyuz TMA-...

NASA Television's newest offering, NASA TV UHD, brings ultra-high definition video to a new level with the kind of imagery only the world's leader in space exploration could provide....

The U.S. Air Force will be unable to leverage the full capabilities of its next-generation GPS 3 positioning, navigation and timing satellites after the service said the associated ground system faces continuing technica...

Thursday's briefing begins with word from Elon Musk that SpaceX is tracking toward a Dec. 19 liftoff of Falcon 9 on its first mission since June's failure.

In Syfy network's new miniseries "Childhood's End," based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke, an alien race turns Earth into a Utopia -- but at what cost? See images from Syfy's TV event here.

The Geminid meteor shower will peak on Sunday (Dec. 13) and Monday (Dec. 14). The online Slooh Community Observatory will host a webcast Sunday night for the event.

One year to the day after lifting off, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 paid its home planet a quick visit for a speed-boost - taking some photos before continuing its journey.

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On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to PJ King, who abandoned a degree in astronautics to become a tech entrepreneur, then returned the space world as co-founder of Firefly Space Systems: a two yea...

The European Space Agency on Dec. 9 signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the construction of ESA's Juice - Jupiter Icy Moons - orbiter, scheduled for launch in 2022 aboard a European Ariane 5 rocket. Space...

United Launch Alliance, the longstanding monopoly provider of U.S. military space launches, has announced that it will not bid for the Department of Defense's first competitive launch in a decade because it wants more Ru...

As American and Japanese officials praised the strong relationship the two countries share in civil and military space activities, one Japanese officials at a recent forum said he sought to elevate his country's role in ...

An interdisciplinary team of students and faculty at Purdue University has designed and built three types of torches that will be central to Indiana's bicentennial relay next year.

Jupiter's Big Red Spot is the largest example of a long-lived storm in the solar system, but now it has some pretty stiff competition in another star system.

On Oct. 1, 2014, NASA mission operations lost communication with one of the two spacecraft of the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, mission, just as the spacecraft was about to orbit around the othe...

Plummeting to Earth during a fiery atmospheric reentry within the cramped confines of their Russian Soyuz capsule, an international trio of space flyers returned safely to the Home Planet today, Dec. 11, for a rare night...

"It is quite surprising that gravity can play any role in quantum mechanics", says Igor Pikovski, a theoretical physicist working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:"Gravity is usually studied on astronom...

The three largest U.S. airlines join British Airways, Jet Blue, Hawaiian Airlines, Virgin America and Spirit Airlines as some of the previous airlines to ban the hands-free segway devices.

Why send a message back in time, but lock it so that no one can ever read the contents? Because it may be the key to solving currently intractable problems....

The Jellyfish Nebula, also known by its official name IC 443, is the remnant of a supernova lying 5,000 light years from Earth....

The company reported a sharp drop in sales of its satellite Earth stations, while its other major satellite hardware business, which sells RF microwave gear, posted double-digit growth. SpaceNews.com

"The star is the size of Jupiter, and its storm is the size of Jupiter's Great Red Spot," said John Gizis of the University of Delaware, Newark. "We know this new found storm has lasted at least two years, and...