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With official dates for commercial crew test flights looming, NASA officials have indicated a revised schedule, taking into account the status of vehicle development as well as International Space Station activities, wil...

Thaicom is considering ways to prolong the life of IPstar, its pioneering high-throughput satellite currently projected to run out of fuel in 2022. SpaceNews.com

ESA's proposed Hera mission is part of an international cooperation aimed at testing whether the orbit of an asteroid can be shifted by smashing into it. Watch its full mission profile

For Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Gosses Bluff crater in the Northern Territory of Australia. The crater is visible in the left centre of the image and it is about 22 km in diameter...

NASA has awarded a contract to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, to continue operations of the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), also in Pasadena.

According to the last study based on Cassini data, complex organic molecules exist within Enceladus and are being released through its plumes. The post Complex Organics Molecules are Bubbling up From Inside Enceladus app...

The probe will map the surface, deploy rovers and collect pristine samples that could contain clues about the origins of life on Earth --

Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Brig. Gen. Tim Lawson: "Do we want to be part of the Space Force? That is yet to be determined"

Virgin Orbit is planning a key test of its LauncherOne system as soon as next week, a final step before the vehicles first launch later this summer.

Kansas Boy Scout troops and students will participate in a live downlink event with astronauts aboard the International Space Station next week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

Today's report - Umbilical Interface Assembly (UIA) Remove and Replace (R&R) Troubleshooting:Yesterday the crew investigated if loosening the 20 fasteners securing the UIA to the Airlock mounting bracket would generate a...

Microgravity makes everything harder ... especially when bodily fluids are involved.

Thanks to the recent dust storm on Mars, the Red Planet is now eerie and shadowless.

Wind turbines could produce significant amounts of electricity for robots exploring the Red Planet’s surface --

Forget the amusement park staple "exit through the gift shop," the newly-renovated store at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex now has a historic exit off the planet: part of the swing arm Apollo 11 astronauts u...

After almost 70 years of spaceflight, space debris has become a rather serious problem. This junk, which floats around in low Earth orbit (LEO), consists of the spent first rocket stages and non-functioning satellites an...

There are currently about fifty known exoplanets whose diameters range from Mars-sized to several times the Earth's and which also reside within their stars' habitable zone - the orbital distance within which their surfa...

Our week through the lens: 25 - 29 June 2018

An international team led by a Ph.D. student from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has identified the emission of tellurium in the infrared spectra of two planetary ne...

For Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Gosses Bluff crater in the Northern Territory of Australia. The crater is visible in the left centre of the image and it is about 22 km in diameter...

An exciting new study analyzed a data set containing single-pixel images taken multiple times per day, in 10 wavelengths, over an extended period. Despite the fact that the entire exoplanet had been reduced to a single p...

Based on a new study of how near-Earth asteroid Phaethon reflects light at different angles, astronomers think that its surface may reflect less light than previously thought. This is an exciting mystery for the recently...