Space

Iran refused to abandon its illicit nuclear materials production program, with an obstinate statement issued by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the International Herald Tribune. Fears that Iran might […]

The United States hasn’t frozen sales of arms to Taiwan, but rather American officials are taking time to review the planned sale, according to a senior Taiwanese official. There is […]

Thousands of job losses stemming from the space shuttle fleet retirement, long feared, are about to begin. Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced that this fall it will begin workforce reductions […]

The current Navy program to convert 18 cruisers and destroyers to the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability, which will be completed by the end of this year, will have […]

NASA policymakers met with leaders of foreign space agencies to mull the shape of a network of science stations that might be placed on the moon. Leaders of nine space […]

Another Major Loss For SpaceX As Falcon 1 Suffers Separation Failure During Ascent Space X Still Has More Missions Planned, And It Remains Set To Provide Commercial Transport Services To […]

NASA Contracts Aim For Lunar Surface Systems Concepts The Constellation Program developing the next-generation U.S. spacecraft system Orion-Ares selected 11 companies and a university to each develop concepts that contribute […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] will develop a new type of system providing power to spacecraft for maneuvering propulsion, communications, radar and more, under the first phase of a contract from […]

Why do the Northern Lights brighten, dim and dance? Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to […]

NASA, one of the biggest computer users on — and off — the planet is about to make some sweeping changes in its Herculean computer networks, and that will mean […]