Mercury Capsule Exhibit to Preview Cosmosphere Satellite ...
The historic capsule that carried the second American to fly into space is set to land in the second most populous city in Kansas.

On This Day in Space! Oct. 23, 2007: Space Station's Harm...
On Oct. 23, 2007, the space shuttle Discovery launched the Harmony module to the International Space Station. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space...

Pulsar Discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell Talks About Her Am...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, one of the biggest names in astrophysics, is giving a talk this Thursday (Oct. 25), and you can watch it live online.

Dizzying Array of Stars Dazzles in New Hubble Photo
The uncountable stellar multitudes of the globular cluster NGC 1898 shine in a newly released photo by the famous Hubble Space Telescope.

First 'Orphan' Gamma-Ray Burst Reveals Insight into Power...
The first orphan gamma-ray burst reveals what happens after the merger of two massive stars.

Space Force Policy Memo Being Drafted to Establish New Mi...
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday will hold a meeting of the National Space Council at the National Defense University to discuss the next steps toward cr...

Assistant cooks Denny's Brooks 8866 (NOC 6322)
brooks, AB Link Canada Immigration Inc. Title: Assistant cooks Denny's Brooks 8866 (NOC 6322) Employer: Denny's Res...

Taxi tests for Paul Allen's Stratolaunch successfully rea...
Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 Stratolaunch, one of the world's largest aircraft, which is intended to launch payloads rockets into Earth's orbit, succ...

Probe commission rules out sabotage as possible cause of ...
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 The state commission investigating the Soyuz-FG booster failure has ruled out sabotage during the assembly of the rocket as a p...

US Air Force's X-37B space plane marks 400 days in orbit
Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has passed its 400-day mark, inching its way toward setting a new flight d...

NASA's first image of Mars from a cubesat
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2018 NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep ...

Military communications satellite online in orbit followi...
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 The fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communication satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for ...

Postman, shopper, builder: In Japan, there's a robot for ...
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 Forget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills: at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots ...

China's commercial aerospace companies flourishing
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 Many new companies have entered the commercial aerospace industry in China, supported by the government. Most of the CEOs come ...

Russian investigators identify responsible for failed Soy...
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 Members of Roscosmos commission and investigators have identified those who could be responsible in the damage to one of the se...

Installing life support the hands-free way
Paris (ESA) Oct 19, 2018 Last week saw the installation of ESA's next-generation life-support system on the International Space Station. The new facility rec...

US astronaut Hague 'amazed' by Russian rescue team's work...
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 NASA astronaut Nick Hague told NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that he was impressed by the teamwork of the rescue crew that...

Plant hormone makes space farming a possibility
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the p...

Alpha Unmanned Systems supports NATO Trident Juncture 2018
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 The Spanish UAV manufacturer, Alpha Unmanned Systems will present the Alpha 800, gasoline-powered helicopter UAV, at NATO's ...

Raytheon awarded $62M for foreign military AMRAAM refresh
Washington (UPI) Oct 22, 2018 Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a contract modification by the Air Force for work on the Advance Medium Range Air to ...

Boeing nabs Army contract to provide in-transit visibilit...
Washington (UPI) Oct 22, 2018 Boeing-subsidiary Tapestry Solutions has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to lend in-transit visibility, or ITV, serv...

Indonesia $200m in arrears on fighter project: S. Korea
Seoul (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 Indonesia has demanded new terms from South Korea on a joint multi-billion-dollar jet fighter development project, as Seoul said Mon...

Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
Paris (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourishe...

Minerals of the world, unite
Paris (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you fin...

The claw game on Mars: NASA InSight plays to win
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2018 If you've ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal "hand" to pick up a pri...

Scientists to debate landing site for next Mars rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2018 Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this ...

Efforts to communicate with Opportunity continue
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, val...

Painting cars for Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2018 When John Campanella's friend wanted his beloved Ferrari painted, he knew exactly who to call. After all, Campanella had been ...

Novel Technique Quickly Maps Young Ice Deposits and Forma...
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars. This large-scale study enabl...

ASU researcher innovates solar energy technology in space
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 Experts predict that by 2050 we're going to have global broadband internet satellite networks, in-orbit manufacturing, space tour...

Curiosity rover operating on backup computer during repai...
Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2018 NASA engineers have switched the Curiosity rover's brains, ceding control of the spacecraft to a backup computer. The move will ...

Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2018 Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to swi...

Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander Concept
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 At this week's International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, Lockheed Martin experts revealed the company's cre...

Opportunity Remains Silent For Over Three Months
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2018 No signal from Opportunity has been heard in over 115 sols, since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). It is expected that Opportunity ha...

Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists a...

UCF selling experimental Martian dirt - $20 a kilogram, p...
Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping. This is not fake news. A team of UCF a...

Scientific research will help to understand the origin of...
Samara, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively wit...

Earth observation data market to reach $2.4B
Montreal, Paris (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 According to the 11th edition of Euroconsult's report, Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Market Prospects to 2027, the co...

LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from ...
Herndon, VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 LGS Innovations, a technology company providing specialized mission-critical communication research and solutions, has announc...

FEFU astrophysicist contributed into international-team e...
Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has deve...

Zooming in on Mexico's landscape
Paris (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 As part of a scientific collaboration with the Mexican Space Agency and other Mexican scientific public entities, ESA has combined i...

GOES-17 begins move to its new operational position
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 NOAA's GOES-17 satellite is getting ready to move to its new vantage point at 137.2 degrees west longitude, allowing us to s...

Government of Canada to invest $7.2M in exactEarth
Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 exactEarth Ltd. reports the Government of Canada will make an investment of $7.2 million over three-years to support the...

Hubble moving closer to normal science operations
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 NASA took great strides last week to press into service a Hubble Space Telescope backup gyroscope (gyro) that was incorrectl...