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TextureCam, a technology whose development is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is designed to take pictures of rocks in 3-D and prioritize the ones that are most scientifically interesting. The smart camera could...

Ever since (and most likely long before) the first tantalizing glimpses of a lunar lava tube and skylight were captured by Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft in 2009, scientists have been dreaming of ways to explore inside thes...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive eruption and Earth coming between it and the Sun on September 11, 2013.

After a flawless launch from Virginia's eastern shore, NASA's next moon probe is looking good on its way to lunar orbit.

Watch a year of incredibly detailed work in building the MAVEN spacecraft — sped up to take just 10 minutes. It’s the dance known as ATLO: Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations, set to a jazzy beat. The next spacecra...

A group that's looking for the first Red Planet colonists received applications from more than 200,000 prospective astronauts vying for a spot on a one-way trip to Mars.

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The Wall Street mantra “greed is good” could soon be adopted by cosmologists to explain the origins of dark energy, the mysterious entity that is speeding up the expansion of the... --

Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in this beautiful space wallpaper of the Carina nebula from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Sun-grazing asteroid Phaethon, has given away its true identity by showing its tail. NASA's STEREO spacecraft captured imagery of the asteroid ejecting dust between 2009 and 2012. This looped time-lapse shows the asteroi...

This timelapse of the entire sky during an aurora was filmed in 3D using two digital SLR's

EPSC2013 Press releases: An atlas of the asteroid, Vesta, created from images taken during the Dawn Mission's Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO), is now accessible for the public to explore online. The set of maps has bee...

Regular digital SLR cameras have been used to make 3D images and video of Earth's auroras, suggested that citizen scientists could take such pictures and help scientists study the phenomenon.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This summer, a group of interns at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., hoped to make their impact on the center last more than their 10-week term.

A baseball-sized piece of a comet lit up the sky on Monday night (Sept. 9), producing a brilliant fireball over the southeast United States.

The black-and-white tones of this photo evoke a famous Moon walk of 1969, but in reality it was taken in Mediterranean waters just a few days ago. For the “Apollo 11 Under The Sea” project, European Space Agency astr...

Despite landing on its side, the Soyuz capsule carrying Commander Pavel Vinogradov (at 60, the oldest person to land in a Soyuz), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin, and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy landed safely in Kaz...

The Horn reflector antenna pioneered work in communication satellites.

ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana: The 64th International Astronautical Congress will take place in Beijing, China, between 23-27 September 2013 at the China National Convention Center."Promoting Space Development for the Be...

Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: Young school scientists may be familiarising themselves with the famous periodic table of elements, but a new, extremely rare element will soon be added ...

The Expedition 36 crew from the International Space Station have landed safely, touching down in their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 02:38 UTC on September 11 (10:58 p.m. EDT Sept. 10). This great overhead im...

Virgin Galactic looks poised to begin launching paying passengers into space by 2014, but the private spaceship company is going needs more folks with the "right stuff. Enter, the Virgin Galactic Career Fair.