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The U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center has cleared the third missile-warning Space Based Infrared System satellite for launch following an investigation into the satellite's engine. SpaceNews.com

Sony pictures is teaming up with NASA to beam the new science fiction movie "Passengers" to the International Space Station.

Jennifer Lawrence's character "Aurora Lane" goes for a swim when suddenly artificial gravity is lost. The film premieres December 21, 2016.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has imaged the martian moon Phobos as part of a second set of test science measurements made since it arrived at the Red Planet on 19 October....

Trump's recent meeting with Al Gore in New York has fueled speculation about the future of NASAs Earth science missions, which are demonstrably vital to the nation The post Trump Meeting Puts NASA Funding in Question app...

SpaceX's first launch since a rocket explosion at the pad has slipped to January.

NASA has awarded a contract to a.i. solutions, Inc., of Lanham, Maryland, to support the agency's Launch Services Program (LSP) in providing end-to-end launch services for NASA and NASA-sponsored payloads on commercial e...

A British-Dutch company planning to install a community of humans on Mars admitted on Wednesday that it's project will be delayed by several years.

Freshly harvested data from NASA's Cassini mission reveals that Saturn's bulging core and twisting gravitational forces offer clues to the ages of the planet's moons. Astronomers now believe that the ringed planet's moon...

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ASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent to Earth its first views of Saturn's atmosphere since beginning the latest phase of its mission. The new images show scenes from high above Saturn's northern hemisphere, including the pl...

SpaceX has postponed Falcon 9's return-t0-flight launch until early January, the Hawthorne, California-based company announced today (Dec. 7). SpaceNews.com

A substantial coronal hole began to rotate into view over the past few days (Dec. 1 - 2, 2016). Coronal holes are magnetically open areas of the sun's magnetic field structure that spew streams of high speed solar wind i...

A recent study from ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provides new evidence for a warm young Mars that hosted water across a geologically long timescale, rather than in short episodic bursts...

Israeli satellite operator Spacecom is denying media reports that it has concluded an agreement to sell itself to the Chinese conglomerate Beijing Xinwei Technology Group, claiming instead that talks are still ongoing. S...

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After months of speculation and rumor, NASA released its long-awaited research paper on the controversial EM Drive propulsion system. The paper was recently published in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronau...

The Expedition 50 crew worked on a series of life science experiments and maintenance operations today. A pair of astronauts also trained for the arrival of Japan's HTV-6 resupply ship next week....

Stars and planets are born from clouds of molecules that coagulate and eventually fall apart again in the space between the stars in a galaxy. Astronomers still do not know exactly how this works.

Gravity is a pretty awesome fundamental force. If it wasn't for the Earth's comfortable 1 g, which causes objects to fall towards the Earth at a speed of 9.8 m/s², we'd all float off into space. And without it, all us t...

(Phys.org)--Russian astronomers have recently observed a giant radio flare from a strong X-ray binary source known as Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3 for short). The flare occurred after more than five years of quiescence of this so...