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Meteorites are key features of many natural history museum collections, but there's never been an international conference dedicated to taking care of these rocks that fall to Earth from space.

Until OCX Block 1 is available, Lockheed Martin's upgraded legacy ground system will be used to integrate GPS 3 satellites into the operational constellation. SpaceNews.com

Boeing's investment in BridgeSat and Raytheon's strategic investment in Hawkeye 360 continues the trend of major defense contractors placing bets on enabling technology. SpaceNews.com

Astronauts on the International Space Station will conduct spacewalks Sept. 23 and 29 to continue upgrades to the orbiting laboratory's power system. Experts from NASA will preview this work in a briefing at 2 p.m. EDT T...

Effective Space, a startup developing a satellite servicing system, announced Sept. 11 an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to provide technical and financial support. SpaceNews.com

PARIS -- Satellite fleet operator Telesat says the desired size of its future low Earth orbit broadband constellation is more than twice the number of satellites authorized by U.S. regulators, and could ultimately scale ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has rescheduled the launch of a cargo spacecraft from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan to 5:21 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 13 (6:21 a.m. Sept. 14 Japan standard ti...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Pangaea field trip in Germany

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Thousands of worms are being flown to the International Space Station later this year for scientists to understand more about spaceflight-induced muscle loss--the first UK experiment to take place on the International Sp...

Let's be honest, launching things into space with rockets is a pretty inefficient way to do things. Not only are rockets expensive to build, they also need a ton of fuel in order to achieve escape velocity. And while the...

One of the key elements of Earth's climate system is the cryosphere - the many forms of ice found on Earth. Two new NASA missions use different technologies to help scientists better understand how frozen water is affect...

The release of gases through sublimation is the defining process of comets, but a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Jordan K. Steckloff and Senior Scientist Nalin H. Samarasinha says that period...

The long, bright streaks that reach out from craters on the moon are actually much longer than they appear, according to research published in the journal Icarus.

Because much of the evidence from Earth's early history has been destroyed by plate tectonics and weathering, astronomers often look to the moon and Mars for clues about our beginnings. But what if some of our informatio...

Researchers have released the most detailed terrain map of Antarctica to date.

Just seven photons in a mirrored trap formed a Bose-Einstein condensate, one of the more exotic particle states -- and one usually reserved for matter.

Ten years ago, the world's largest scientific instrument was turned on and the start of a research dynasty began.

I'm just inches away from capturing a Japanese HTV cargo spacecraft on the International Space Station using the Canadarm2 robotic arm. But things are getting dicey.

NASA's new mission to the sun may reveal clues about alien worlds, too.

Last year's mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports.

As three powerful storms march one by one across the Atlantic Ocean toward the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean, a fourth is getting ready to roll over the Hawaiian Islands.