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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology.
XPRIZE and Google have incorporated Milestone Prizes into the Google Lunar XPRIZE in order to reward teams who achieve key milestones on their way to ready their subsystems for launch.
Dragon is a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver both cargo and people to orbiting destinations.
Early Tuesday morning, two CubeSats were deployed from the International Space Station thanks to NanoRacks' CubeSat deployment system. These were the first two satellites deployed of an eventual 28 CubeSat constellation for Planet Labs.
When Falcon Heavy lifts off later this year, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. Thrust at liftoff is equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft operating simultaneously.
The March issue of Playboy Magazine includes conceptual designs for a Playboy Club in outer space.
Just a few hours after SpaceX announced that it would allow people to use photos under a Creative Commons license, founder Elon Musk changed his mind.
The UAE has invested more than Dh18 billion into its space programmes, the director general of the country's newly-established space agency said on Tuesday.
A new giant-screen documentary is now launching audiences on a "Journey to Space."
Small satellites are becoming increasingly popular tools for Earth-imaging, communications, and other applications. But they have major control issues: Once in space, they can't accurately point cameras or change orbit, and they usually crash and b
Though the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser spaceplane was kicked out of the running to ferry crew to the International Space Station (ISS), a variation on the craft may still end up visiting the station.
Aerojet Rocketdyne's European subsidiary in Belfast, Northern Ireland won a contract worth €11 million from the European Space Agency to flight qualify a space thruster for satellites.
We tend to think of future lunar colonies as being cramped futuristic domes or subsurface rabbit warrens, but what about underground caverns big enough to hang glide in?
Dozens of missions have launched to Mars to better understand this close neighbor to Earth. Some were flybys, gathering information only in brief bursts
Rain. Ocean waves. Dark matter, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and other mysteries. To study these things it helps to have a satellite.
China is reporting new progress in shaking out procedures required for rocketing back to Earth samples from the moon.
China is reporting new progress in shaking out procedures required for rocketing back to Earth samples from the moon.
"A sailor must be able to swim in the sea. Likewise, a cosmonaut must be able to swim in outer space."
A new, inflatable addition to the International Space Station is ready for its close-up.
Friday will see three rare celestial events
A geomagnetic storm that government scientists rate as severe hit the planet on Tuesday morning.
?The sharing economy is hitting spaceflight.
China is reporting new progress in shaking out procedures required for rocketing back to Earth samples from the moon.
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Concerns about unanticipated side-effects of developing artificial intelligence are gathering steam at SXSW with what looks like the first protest against the development such technology.
Up close with Robert Bigelow and his dream of habitable bubbles in space
In a laboratory, time lapse video shows a tiny satellite opening a huge sail that could carry it deep into space. Launched on a conventional rocket, the satellite will eventually be powered only by sunlight hitting a Mylar sail.
No one knows how much oil we have left on the planet.
In science, it's often the case that solving one mystery just raises more questions.
Up close with Robert Bigelow and his dream of habitable bubbles in space
