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When NASA's Cold Atom Lab reaches the International Space Station in 2016, it will create temperatures one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero, allowing researchers to study the strange behavior of quantum mech...

"There is no systematic approach to [foreign national access management] at NASA," said the report from the National Academy for Public Administration.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new study using NASA satellite data finds that water prospects for the Aral Sea watershed are better than previously thought.

[Today (or rather tonight due to time zone issues) is the one year anniversary of the asteroid impact over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. What follows below is a retrospective on the event. Inspired by this, I also wro...

If you wanted to pay a visit to the red planet, how long would it take? The answer depends on a number of things ...

The $8 million PandaX (Particle and Astrophysical Xenon) dark-matter experiment -- which lies 7,874 feet (2,400 meters) underground, inside a mountain made of marble -- will be up and running early this year.

NASA is training Robonaut 2 in telemedicine, hoping that one day the robot (controlled by humans) could administer care to astronauts flying aboard the International Space Station.

Arianespace Press Releases: The launcher for Arianespace's initial Vega flight of 2014 began its build-up this week at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the first step in a mission campaign that will lead to its or...

Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in ear...

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Researchers determine the Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunit...

Airbus Defence and Space, Safran, OHB AG's MT Aerospace and Avio have been given "total carte blanche" to create a contractor team.

Airbus Defence and Space, Safran, OHB AG's MT Aerospace and Avio have been given "total carte blanche" to create a contractor team.

When our future astronauts splash down into the Pacific Ocean aboard an Orion capsule, Mike Generale, NASA, and the U.S. Navy will be waiting for them.

Amateur astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca captured this amazing image of the International Space Station soaring over Pisa, Italy near the Pleiades star cluster. See how he took this cool photo.

Rather than counting whales from the bow of a ship, researchers have devised a much more efficient method of taking population censuses using satellite imagery.

Even though it was under construction, the International Space Station has been performing groundbreaking research over the past ten years. A recent ten year extension means the ISS will have another decade to do researc...

A European spacecraft scheduled to launch toward the sun in 2017 will be shielded by a paint once used in prehistoric cave art.

While NASA’s newest lunar probe was tracking the stars, it also captured the moon! This series of star tracker images shows Earth’s closest large neighbour from a close-up orbit. And as NASA explains, the primary pur...

Science@NASA: With the space station no longer "under construction," the world's most advanced orbital laboratory is open for business. The station has just received a 10-year extension from NASA, giving researchers the ...

Aldo Sandulli was named ASI extraordinary commissioner by the Italian council of ministers following a recommendation by Education and Research Minister Maria Chiara Carrozza.

Two people get a unique perspective of the environment during a zero gravity flight.