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The new shockwave video is the work of scientists at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California, who aim to reduce the intensity of aircraft sonic booms and thereby make commercial supersonic flight over land mor...

As the constellations of summer depart from our sky, they are replaced by what are often called "the watery constellations." These include normal sea creatures like fishes and dolphins, and even Aquarius carrying a water...

A paper in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research uses new data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to update our story for the history of the Moon's massive impacts.

Bill Nye the Science Guy's stint cutting the rug on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" might be cut short due to injury.

A colossal NASA balloon is poised to carry a free-hanging gondola sky-high on a mission to take a gander at celestial grandeur: Comet ISON.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphe...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Scientists have provided the most comprehensive details yet of the journey energy from the sun takes as it hurtles around Earth's magnetosphere.

The Apollo 12 Commander examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity.

Future Mars explorers should be able to get all the water they need out of the red dirt beneath their boots, a new study suggests. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about ...

Can't find asteroid 2010 QW1 in the Minor Planet Database? No, the "Men in Black" didn't secretly remove this Earth-orbiting asteroid from the listing... but recent top-notch detective work by astronomers did. The myster...

As the Moon passes through Earth's magnetic field, two lunar-orbiting spacecraft look for turbulence, particle acceleration, and magnetic reconnection. These phenomena control how the solar wind interacts with Earth's ma...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Engineers used a crane to hoist the shipping container off of NASA's Webb telescope's Near Infrared Spectrograph or NIRSpec, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Engineers pushed NASA's Webb telescope's Near Infrared Spectrograph or NIRSpec instrument into the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NIRSpec uses infra...

NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere.

NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike Inc. will host the fifth forum of the LAUNCH initiative at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Friday, Sept...

NASA will make scientists and data visualizations available to journalists Friday, Sept. 27, with the release of a portion of the Fifth Assessment Report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: These two images show a large change in X-ray brightness of a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar, between 2006 and 2013.

Image of the Week #110 September 26th, 2013: From: The world at night – blacklighting: how it works and some amazing photos by Felicity Muth at Not bad science . [More] --

When Bruce Banner gets angry, he gets big and green and strong and well, vengeful. The Hulk is the stuff of comic book legend and as Mark Ruffalo recently showed us in The Avengers, Banner’s/Hulk’s personality can tr...

"Highly Commended" by the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition, this amazing space wallpaper is a composite shot showing the progress of an annular eclipse in May 2013.

Astronomers believe that hidden deep within the wealth of data collected by NASA's Kepler mission are minuscule signatures confirming the presence of exomoons. With such a promising discovery on the horizon, researchers ...

ESA Top News: Technology image of the week: A pair of 3D-printed copies of a glove worn by an ESA spacewalker