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It's almost crash time for China's falling space station Tiangong-1. The school bus-sized space station began what should be its last day in orbit today (April 1).

A supersonic parachute designed to land future NASA spacecraft on Mars just underwent a key test high up in Earth's skies.

Wilson believes the Air Force should embrace its cultural past, when it took big chances on technologies. SpaceNews.com

India's national space agency has lost contact with a satellite days after it was launched into orbit with much fanfare, authorities said Sunday.

A complex interplay of gravity, volcanoes and planetary wobble could pin down the age of oceans on Mars --

"Venus has had plenty of time to evolve life on its own," explains Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center, noting that some models suggest Venus once had a habitable c...

When it comes to eggs, most of us are probably thinking of the chocolate variety that we hope will pass our way this weekend, but they're difficult to spot from space. Instead, we can offer you this gorgeous Copernicus S...

The other day, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took yet another step to muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to d...

Round and round it goes, when and where it stops, nobody knows. China's Tiangong-1 space station is making its last orbits around Earth and a skywatcher in Texas has captured one last video of the space lab before its in...

The satellite communications industry was shocked to see a $600 million addition for WGS-11 and WGS-12.

A defunct space laboratory is set to become a celestial fireball as it re-enters earth's atmosphere in the next 24 hours, China's space authority said Sunday, hitting speeds of over 26,000 kilometres an hour before disin...

The vertiginous video also offers an opportunity to consider theories posited by two of the giants of science While on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station over Mexico, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik captur...