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NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the development of exploration, scientific and commercial capabilities on the moon over ... [full story]

After a decade of construction and eight years of operation (SDSS-I, 2000-2005; SDSS-II, 2005-2008), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) completed its observations in mid-July and will release its final data set to the public in October. SDSS-III, a six-year ... [full story]

Mark Sykes says that if a non-stellar object is massive enough to be round and orbits a star, it ought to be a planet. The key here is that once an object gets that big, important geophysical processes begin. Under ... [full story]

U.S. scientists say they've developed a theory that would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light without breaking the laws of physics. Baylor University Associate Professor Gerald Cleaver and graduate student Richard Obousy theorize that by ... [full story]

Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, at a forum in Florida, said he would not cut the NASA budget if he is elected. Obama, campaigning in the state for a second straight day, spoke in Titusville near the Kennedy Space ... [full story]

As the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) approaches the three-year anniversary of its launch, imaging technology from Eastman Kodak continues to enable the orbiter to explore the red planet as never before. Using images captured by KODAK CCD Image Sensors, the ... [full story]

For the first time ESA is offering an Innovation Prize as part of this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition. ESA has already been supporting this competition through its Technology Transfer Programme Office since the start four years ago. The aim ... [full story]

Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. "The time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid ... [full story]

The satellite industry in the Asia-Pacific region is "on the move" with increasing demand for Direct-to-Home (DTH) services in India and China and with a number of broadband services via satellite significantly increasing in Asian countries including Australia. Healthy growth ... [full story]

Scientists will gather in Siberia to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event June 26-28, one of the world's most mysterious explosions which flattened 80 million trees but largely went unnoticed at the time. The massive blast, equivalent to ... [full story]