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The Air Force will invite allied militaries, starting in 2019, to attend U.S. military schools where Air Force space officers learn about space warfare. SpaceNews.com

Boeing has decided to not challenge Lockheed Martin for the next production lot of up to 22 GPS 3 satellites. SpaceNews.com

The House Science Committee, after some unusual last-minute drama, approved a NASA authorization bill April 17 that offers more support to the agency's Earth science program. SpaceNews.com

In his last major speech as NASA's acting administrator before retiring, Robert Lightfoot said he believes the space agency needs to do a better job assessing risks and making decisions in order to carry out its explorat...

Sending a human into space and doing it efficiently presents a galaxy of challenges. Koki Ho, University of Illinois assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and his graduate students, Hao Chen and...

Formed at high temperatures and pressures, the gems trace extreme events from the dawn of our solar system --

As Sierra Nevada Corporation prepares its Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for a first launch on an Atlas 5 in late 2020, the company expects to make a decision by the end of this year on the rocket that will launch later miss...

Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-Moon system. Their work s...

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Media are invited to attend a news conference at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland at 9:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 2, to discuss a recent experiment to demonstrate a new nuclear reactor power system designed for ...

A pair of scientists who were part of the first gravitational wave discovery have developed a way to listen to the background noise of the Universe to detect thousands more. The post How to Listen to the Background Hum o...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have completed an unprecedented "dissection" of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.

Like a ship cruising the seas or a fighter jet going supersonic, astronomic objects also make shock waves through the medium in which they travel.

Future spacecraft could think for themselves using the same technology that powers Bitcoin.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) now is scheduled for launch today at 6:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 18, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

U.S. Strategic Command's bilateral agreements to share Space Situational Awareness data with other nations could lead to further space cooperation, according to panelists at the 34th Space Symposium. SpaceNews.com

Space matters in Europe and it is a top political priority. But the European Union's efforts to achieve autonomy in space don't mean we act in isolation. SpaceNews.com

The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is a spectacular, hostile environment that may resemble conditions encountered on Mars and Titan - as well as in sites containing nuclear waste. From 20-28 January 2018, five teams of r...

NASA Kennedy Space Center: Artist concept of TESS in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.Photo credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA and SpaceX are targeting the launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...

"One of the biggest questions in exoplanet exploration is: If an astronomer finds a planet in a star's habitable zone, will it be interesting from a biologist's point of view?" said George Ricker, TESS principal investig...

Lockheed Martin picked a veteran missile defense engineer to lead the company's space research organization known as the Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. SpaceNews.com

Despite the pressing need for intervention and technology approaching maturity, it has been difficult to gather wide public consensus and deploy a maiden active debris removal mission. SpaceNews.com