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As the possible 'comet of the century' (ISON) nears the Sun, it has come within the viewing range of the NASA Sun observing satellite. Earth, Mercury and the further away Comet Enke were all visible to the spacecraft on ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has stopped gathering data for a few days while engineers investigate an electrical problem that cropped up on Sunday. The suspected culprit is a "soft short," a sort of electrical leak throug...

ESA said the preliminary design review for the Orion propulsion system will not be completed until May 2014.

This week’s video comes to us from Rob Nelson at Untamed Science . According to Rob: Siats (pronounced SEE-OTTS) is a giant mega-predator (think T-Rex, but living at a different time). I... --

It began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years. It has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forward for so long. On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 2013, Comet IS...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Senior members from the oil and gas company Statoil were at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to participate in a ceremony for a recently signed agreement with NASA.

Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Some researchers have suggested that this...

Think Greenland's ice sheet is small today? It was smaller--as small as it has ever been in recent history--from 3-5,000 years ago, according to scientists who studied the ice sheet's history using a new technique they d...

Editor's note (11/22/13): We are republishing this June 27, 2005, feature in  Scientific American as a tribute to business leader, physicist and entrepreneur Fred Kavli, founder and... --

As a result, while Thales Alenia Space, Astrium Satellites and the dozens of other companies building Copernicus' Sentinel satellites may have seen their profit margins narrow, the cost to ESA is only 2.75 percent above ...

The incoming Comet ISON is undergoing dramatic brightening as it heads toward its Thanksgiving Day rendezvous with the sun, but if you are hoping to snap photos of the icy wanderer, you'll need to be prepared.

The IceCube neutrino observatory buried at the South Pole is one cool telescope. It has detected extremely high-energy neutrinos, which are elementary particles that likely originate outside our solar system. The discove...

Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Nancy Atkinson, Amy Shira Teitel, David Dickinson This week’s stories: Amy: MAVEN 29 Satellites Launched at Once Inspiration Mars Asks NASA for Help David: Comet Nevski brightens, and comets, ...

Launched September 6th, LADEE has been orbiting the Moon for weeks while diagnostics confirmed it's scientific instruments were working correctly, allowing it to begin analyzing the Moon's extremely thin exosphere.

The National Hurricane Center issued their final advisory on Extra-Tropical Storm Melissa as it spins toward to Azores Islands and weakens.

Two spacecraft launched for Mars this month: Mars Orbiter Mission on November 5, and MAVEN on November 18. MAVEN is now on an interplanetary trajectory, while Mars Orbiter Mission is still in Earth orbit and will not dep...

Comet ISON has been billed as a potential 'comet of the century' but there's a trick to photographing the comet. See how to photograph Comet ISON from veteran space photographers Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre.

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Cyclone Helen as it was making landfall in eastern India on November 22.

Though no Mars sample-return mission is firmly on the books, the European Space Agency has supported the development of a proof-of-concept container built to keep Martian samples safe as they journey from their home worl...

The low pressure area previously known as System 90S has continued organizing and consolidating and infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite helped confirm its strengthening into Cyclone Alessia in the Southern Indian Oc...

The U.S. House intelligence Committee proposed shrinking the government's spy satellite program by $130 million.

"This exceedingly rare triple system, seen when the Universe was only 800 million years old, provides important insights into the earliest stages of galaxy formation during a period known as 'Cosmic Dawn,' when the Unive...