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"We have shown the first time, that in particular photosynthesis is possible in micro-niches on the surface of Mars," says Jean-Pierre de Vera, a scientist at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Planetary Research...

Today: Try Zero-Gravity (Try Zero-G) Experiments: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Wakata set up and performed the JAXA Try Zero-G experiments, while video of the activities are recorded with a camcorder....

The 4 percent decline in ESA's top-line budget for 2014 masks a continued upward trend in spending by many of its member nations.

The first day of March 1780 was a particularly productive night for Charles Messier. Combing the constellation of Leo for additions to his grand astronomical catalog, he struck on not one, but two, new objects....

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite captured this visible image of smoke from California's Colby Fire on January 16 at 20:29 UTC/3:29 p.m. EST....

Three decades ago we were unaware that exoplanets circled other stars. We had just started talking about dark matter but remained blissfully ignorant of dark energy. The Hubble Space Telescope was still on the drawing bo...

From 1955 to 1962, Neil Armstrong was a research pilot at the NASA Research Flight Center now named in his honor. While flying there, he tested numerous cutting edge craft, including rocket powered jets and jet capable o...

After a decade of exploring the Martian surface, the scientists overseeing veteran rover Opportunity thought they'd seen it all. That was until a rock mysteriously 'appeared' a few feet in front of the six-wheeled rover ...

Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Mike Simmons from Astronomers without Borders, Nicole Gugliucci, Jason Major, Casey Dreier, Brian Koberlein, Nancy Atkinson, Morgan Rehnberg, David Dickinson (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space H...

During last night’s celebration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of ten years of the Mars Exploration Rovers, mission principal investigator Steve Squyres shared several stories about the exploration and discoveries ma...

This is the second half of a detailed description of tailed radio galaxies from RGZ science team member Heinz Andernach. If you haven’t yet read the first part, it’s here: please feel free to leave any questions in t...

Europe will expand its space presence this year through missions with a more practical application for Earthlings--notably the Galileo constellation of navigation satellites, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Friday.

Astronomers from the Osaka University and Ibaraki University have found evidence of dust particles colliding to form protoplanets around a young star named HD142527. It was observed using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe is scheduled to wake up at 5:00 a.m. EST Monday after sleeping in deep space for the past 957 days. Rosetta will then start preparing to rendezvous with Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gera...

We now take it for granted that astronauts on the International Space Station can tweet and post things on Facebook and G+ live from space, but it wasn’t always so. Before January of 2010, any emails, news, or Twitter ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captured this visible image of smoke from California's Colby Fire...

A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)....

ESA will not be subject to financial penalties following the one-year delay in the launch of Europe's Galileo satellites because the agency is not a party to the industrial contract.

NASA Breaking News: NASA's uncrewed Global Hawk research aircraft is in the western Pacific region on a mission to track changes in the upper atmosphere and help researchers understand how these changes affect Earth's cl...

The Kuiper belt--the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice--hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System ...

Engineers and safety specialists from NASA and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) gathered in Morro Bay, Calif., in late December to demonstrate how the company's Dragon spacecraft's parachute system would function ...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to outline the agency's Earth science activities planned for 2014, which include five mission launches.