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NASA is offering another chance for you to send your name to Mars aboard the InSight lander launching to the Red Planet next year.

The U.S. Army wants to accelerate its network modernization programs by making greater use of commercial telecommunications technology. SpaceNews.com

Small terminals typically are easily jammed, so having an anti-jam capability in a portable system would be significant. SpaceNews.com

A new market for super high-speed weapons is fueling investments in rocket engine technologies. SpaceNews.com

Let's set the record straight on Russian rocket engines and next-generation American launch vehicles. SpaceNews.com

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, to discuss new research to be published this week on changing global levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The research is based on data from N...

Today - Multi-Omics Sample Collections: A 52S crewmember collected fecal samples for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Multi-Omics experiment....

NASA will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the James Webb Auditorium in the agency's headquarters in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 12, with a discussion of the contributions of Hispanics to NASA's mission and the impo...

The last time that it traveled to Houston, the spacecraft that flew the first humans to walk on the moon was purposely kept away from the public.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Antarctic Peninsula and the adjacent Larsen Ice Shelf, from which a massive iceberg broke off in July....

SpaceX successfully launched the third mission for Iridium Communications Inc. with the deployment of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites....

Perhaps General Relativity can be modified to give a new theory, in which the motions of galaxies, and the structure of the universe, are correctly predicted, without the need for dark matter. Maybe even the accelerating...

The new series "Stargate Origins" will be available only on a new "Stargate Command" streaming platform, now available online as well as to download for iOS and Android.

Life could possibly evolve on a neutron star itself as "hyper-dense microscopic organisms controlled by nuclear forces with a metabolism faster than ordinary chemical-based life," suggests Lord Martin Rees, Britain's acc...

Early next year, Solstar Space plans to demonstrate the first commercial internet link in space by connecting experimental payloads traveling in Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital capsules with researchers on the groun...

Two US astronauts embarked Tuesday on the second spacewalk this month to make much-needed repairs to the International Space Station's robotic arm, NASA said.

The Concordia research station in Antarctica is a place of extremes: for nine months no supplies can be delivered, the nearest living beings are 600 km away at the Russian Vostok station, and the Sun does not rise above ...

The Rêves de Gosse association, together with ESA and Novespace, helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights.

(Phys.org)--Two teams working independently have found evidence of the existence of Baryonic matter--particles that link galaxies together. One team was made of members from the Institute of Space Astrophysics, the other...

(Phys.org)--Using NASA's prolonged Kepler mission, known as K2, astronomers have discovered a new Neptune-sized planet in a binary star system in the Hyades open cluster. The newly found exoworld, designated K2-nnnA b, i...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station beginning at 5:15 a.m. EDT Thu...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers from the U.S., Japan and Switzerland has found possible evidence of a source of energy that could be responsible for heating the sun's corona. In their paper published in the journal Nat...