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In this new Hubble image two objects are clearly visible, shining brightly. When they were first discovered in 1979, they were thought to be separate objects -- however, astronomers soon realized that these twins are a l...

Far from remaining steady, the North Star has grown as much as 4.6 times brighter over the last 2,000 years.

The origins of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser go back over 50 years to the US Air Force's and NASA's research into lifting body concepts and the X-20 Dyna-Soar, so this winged, lifting-body spacecraft is one of...

After the White House decided recently to prolong the life of the International Space Station until 2024, the nation's top science official declared that the four-year extension would help NASA get a big return on its $1...

CJ Sturckow, who has four space shuttle missions under his belt, got behind the wheel of Virgin Galactic's private SpaceShipTwo for the first time earlier this month, guiding the vehicle through an unpowered "glide fligh...

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has shaken up the popular science world with his newest study about the basic nature of black holes, but is his idea revolutionary? Some scientists aren't convinced.

NASA plans to reserve six Soyuz seats to cover round-trip transportation and related training for three astronauts during 2017.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A close flyby of Mars in 2014 by comet Siding Spring could deliver opportunities for learning, but also possible hazards for orbiting spacecraft. NASA is preparing for ...

NASA Breaking News: The first round of acoustic tests on a scale model of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is underway. The tests will allow engineers to verify the design of the sound suppression system being developed ...

The first round of acoustic tests on a scale model of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is underway....

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A high-precision radar instrument from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., left Southern California for Iceland today to create detailed maps of how gla...

The next major mission to Mars will push the technological envelope in way that preserves its budget and fulfills the scientific goals set by the planetary community for this decade.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: On Jan. 16, 2014, a wildfire broke out in the mountains above the Los Angeles suburbs of Glendora and Azusa. The fire consumed almost 2,000 acres and destroyed several homes, after sta...

To resolve a paradox between quantum mechanics and general relativity, Stephen Hawking has released a new paper arguing that light can, in fact, escape from black holes eventually, doing away with the notion of an event ...

SPACE.com, the premier destination for innovation, technology, entertainment, astronomy and space news, is now accepting submissions for the SPACE.com Space Age Awards at Toy Fair 2014 in February.

NASA' s Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) will take measurements in the Pacific Ocean's tropical tropopause (layer of atmosphere, 55,000-65,000 Feet above sea level). It'll provide data on changes in moist...

For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the diffuse "cosmic web" of gas that stretches between galaxies.

Using the NSF's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomer D. J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space....

If you could get a good look at the environment around a supermassive black hole — which is a black hole often found in the center of the galaxy — what factors would make that black hole keep going? A Japanese study ...

An article entitled "Geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region"was published online for SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy on January 21, 2014....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Chief Scientist for Atmospheres, Paul Newman, is the most diplomatic scientist at Goddard as one of four co-chairs to the United Nations Science Panel for the Montreal Protocol.