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Astronomers and amateurs alike have rushed to their telescopes to capture images of the brilliant blown-up star that just appeared in the nearby galaxy Messier 82. See photos of the new supernova that astrophotographers ...

Got gas? The black hole in galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021 is keeping it all for itself and stopping trillions of stars from coming to be, according to new research. You can see data above from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Obse...

Remember those snorkels and pads astronauts used during the ammonia pump replacement on station this past December? The new measures went a long way to helping astronauts stay safe if another helmet water leak happens, b...

Over the last few days, Curiosity made steady driving progress to the southwest. For several of those days, an intriguing feature has appeared on the horizon in her images.

Lockheed, the prime contract on the now-defunct Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator program, is closing out the project and transferring its hardware to NASA's Glenn Research Center. NASA expects to save about $55 m...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and ...

Ten years ago, on Jan. 24, 2004, the Opportunity rover landed on a flat plain in the southern highlands of the planet Mars and rolled into an impact crater scientists didn't even know existed. The mission team, understan...

The origin of Ceres' intermittent plumes is unclear --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Meeting early career scientists was Dr. Ellen Stofan's favorite part of visiting NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center, January 23. "They are the real future of this agency and they are t...

NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers touched down on Mars in January 2004, tasked with 90-day missions to search for signs of past water activity. Rover project manager John Callas reflects on a decade of discovery from ...

Mars may have been capable of supporting microbial life for hundreds of millions of years in the ancient past, recent findings from NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers suggest.

Astronomers say it's the first direct imaging of the long-sought gas filaments stretching between galaxies --

CNES said its decision was made in concert with Airbus Defence and Space, formerly named Astrium Services, which since 2008 has been the majority shareholder in the company that commercializes Spot data.

With news yesterday of the closest confirmed type Ia supernova since the 1800′s, astronomers in the northern hemisphere risked frostbite and hoped for clear skies to try and capture images of the newly named supernova,...

Meet our fearless (co-)leader, Radio Galaxy Zoo Project Scientist Ivy Wong: Ivy is an Australian astronomer (currently based at CSIRO) who is interested in the how/why galaxies start and stop forming stars. She is curren...

NASA's super-high-flying fleet of communication satellites is about to grow.

Martian art and Red Planet science meet in a new exhibition celebrating 10 years of Mars exploration with two twin rovers.

A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists are using mini-satellites that work as "space cops" to help control traffic in space.

NASA has created a unique spherical film showing water's journey and extensive impact as it cycles through Earth....

Although the majority of the "normal" matter exists in stars at the center of galaxies, in actuality these stars account for less than 10 percent of the matter in the universe. A new set of simulations show that the ener...

The third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-L) will deliver a boost in transmitting power and a higher frequency band for video and data. It is set to launch on January 23rd, 2014.TDRS-L and Atl...

A new star explosion has been discovered in the galaxy M82, the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light-years from Earth. See amazing images of the supernova here.