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The U.S. Air Force awarded Orbital ATK a $29.2 million fixed-price contract to launch a Minotaur 1 rocket on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) within the next 24 months, the Air Force Space and Missile S...

A peculiar class of meteorites has offered scientists new clues about when the planet Jupiter took shape and wandered through the solar system.

The transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump added six more people to the NASA landing team Friday, including senior Dynetics executive Steve Cook and former astronaut Sandy Magnus. SpaceNews.com

With Pluto in the rearview, the New Horizons probe is speeding for a cosmic encounter that wasn't on the original itinerary --

With a new (and hopefully final) "Planet of the Apes" movie about to open across the USA in 2017, we thought it would be interesting to take a fresh look at the theory subscribed to by Carl Sagan and the...       

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Almost 25,000 light-years away, two dead stars, each more massive than our Sun, but only 20 kilometers in diameter, orbit one another in less than five hours....

The same phrase that hailed astronaut John Glenn's historic launch into space more than 50 years ago became a hashtag to mark his last departure from Earth. From politicians to astronauts, "#GodspeedJohnGlenn" trended as...

A Japanese capsule blasted off with much-needed supplies for the International Space Station on Friday, a week after a Russian shipment was destroyed shortly after liftoff.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's H-IIB rocket launched Dec. 9 from the Tanegashima (pron: Tan-uh-GAH-shuh-mah) Space Center in southern Japan carrying the unpiloted "Kounotori" H-II Transfer Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) to ...

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The NASA administrator will always remember John Glenn "the humanitarian, the human being and the loving husband." Glenn passes away at the age of 95 on Dec. 9, 2016, leaving behind a tremendous legacy for spaceflight an...

Japan's robotic HTV-6 cargo spacecraft has begun its four-day journey to the International Space Station.

The H-II Transfer Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) launched from Tanegashima Space Center on Dec. 9, 2016. It is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Staton on Dec. 13.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the northern part of Western Australia to the Wolfe Creek Crater National Park....

The first planet ever to be discovered was found in 1781. It was an accident of sorts; William Herschel wasn't looking for a planet specifically. He was instead scanning the sky for double stars, cataloging them as he fo...

Japan is getting ready to roll out its H-IIB rocket today at the Tanegashima Space Center for a launch Friday at 8:26 a.m. EST to the International Space Station. Riding atop the H-IIB rocket is the Kounotori HTV-6 cargo...

(Phys.org)--A small team of researchers from the U.S. and Italy has found evidence of a naturally formed quasicrystal in a sample obtained from the Khatyrka meteorite. In their paper published in the journal Scientific R...

DigitalGlobe has released the first picture from its latest high resolution commercial imaging satellite, launched three weeks ago.

Our week through the lens: 5-9 December 2016