How Kepler’s Pointing System Might Have Failed
Launch damage or radiation are most likely causes, says CEO of reaction wheel company
Can the Kepler Planet Hunting Telescope Be Saved?
A Stanford engineer says there might be a fix
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Commercial Quantum Cryptography Satellites Coming
Canadian team wants to take the cheap microsatellite route to uncrackable global communications
Electric Space Sail to Get Its First Test
A small Estonian satellite will test an electrically-charged tether in orbit
Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms
New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather
Tracking Sulfur Dioxide Pollution: Cherchez la (Gas) Plume
Blame volcanoes, not Asian industry, for most sulfur dioxide pollution. Meanwhile, a new IR camera tracks man-made SO2 emissions
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic
Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss
Gaia's Mission to Map the Milky Way
The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy
The Human Face Within Big Data
A new book sees big data as mostly good, a little scary, and full of people
Finding Mercury’s Water with Infrared Lasers and Neutron Counters
Two instruments on NASA’s MESSENGER probe confirm as much as 1000 cubic kilometers of water frozen in polar craters
A Quantum Dot First: Electron-Photon Entanglement
A new way to entangle quantum bits made of light and matter could be a boost for quantum communication
Robot Photographers Tour the Solar System
A new book showcases photos from rovers and space probes
Overclock My Satellite
Sophisticated algorithms boost satellite performance on the cheap
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Rendering Greenhouse Gases Visible
Through datamining, modeling, and top-down measurement, scientists can pinpoint climate change actors
"Hubble Psychology” Causing NASA Program Cost Overruns?
NASA inspector general says that costs and deadlines aren't priorities to NASA program managers
We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris
The longer we wait, the tougher and more expensive it will be to safeguard satellites
Scientists Fight Radio Interference to Forecast Drought
Soil-moisture satellite encounters rogue transmitters; new satellite being designed to dodge them
Intellectual Ventures Spinoff to Market Metamaterials Antennas
The new technology promises cheap, fast broadband on the go
The Truth About Terahertz
Anyone hoping to exploit this promising region of the electromagnetic spectrum must confront its very daunting physics
NASA Saves Big on Fuel in ISS Rotation
A new way of turning the space station cuts propellant costs by 94 percent
U.S. Air Force’s Plug-and-Play Satellites
Satellite design doesn’t have to be rocket science
Happy Birthday, Telstar!
World's first telecom satellite launched 50 years ago today
LightSquared's Final Chapter?
4G wireless contender announces bankruptcy filing
How Accurate Is the Mason-Dixon Line?
The resolution of the 18th-century mapping is also a story of 20th-century technology
The Titanic Launched a Century of Emergency Response Technologies
Emergency communications arose after the great ship went down
Alien Earth Hunter Gets New Lease on Life
NASA's Kepler space telescope, which is looking for Earth-sized planets around other stars, has gotten a mission extension
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Will GPS Jamming Cause Future Shipping Accidents?
As more systems rely on GPS, deliberate jamming becomes a bigger concern
Final Blow for LightSquared?
FCC may yank the permission it had granted satellite-provider LightSquared to set up a terrestrial network
LightSquared’s GPS-Interference Controversy Comes to a Boil
Cellular wannabe can’t reach a deal with GPS community
Bloopers in Space
A respected spaceflight society has a little explaining to do
U.S. Satellite Shootdown: The Inside Story
While assessing the hazards of hydrazine reentry from space, a journalist discovers the hazards of media commentary as well