Space

Japanese Self-Defense Forces are preparing for a test of their sea-based ballistic missile defense system in the week of Nov. 17, according to Kyodo News. The test at the Pacific […]

The Phoenix lander, a plucky geologist unlocking many mysteries of Mars, is laboring away and still producing rich scientific finds as it faces a death sentence, NASA briefers said this […]

The the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) research satellite successfully detected and tracked a modified Minuteman II booster vehicle with a simplified target payload that was launched from Vandenberg Air […]

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone, NASA reported. […]

The United States needs to accelerate forming its missile defense shield now, more than ever, as enemy threats, worrisome capabilities and hostile actions mandate swift U.S. protective action, Riki Ellison, […]

The IKONOS commercial remote sensing satellite has been on orbit and continues to function, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. GeoEye Inc. [GEOY] owns and operates the bird, which supplies high-resolution […]

Launch Is A Win For Both SpaceX And NASA, Which Needs Commercial Transport Capabilities To Space Station Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, yesterday finally attained success in launching a […]

The Stardust spacecraft, which collected the first particles from a comet, will go on display at the Smithsonian Institution Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C., NASA […]

Atlantis Now Blasts Off At 10:19 P.M. ET On Oct. 14, While Endeavour Will Launch At 7:07 P.M. ET Nov. 16, NASA Announces NASA delayed its next two space shuttle […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force is doing "everything humanly possible" to ensure that any industry protest of an upcoming multibillion-dollar satellite contract will not be upheld by auditors, but […]