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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Terrain that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit.

Space.com picked the winners of the Space Age Awards for the best space age toys at Toy Fair 2014 in New York City.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity rolled past 5 kilometers on the Red Planet last week, and many people who work at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory went on a 5K run to celebrate.

NASA has set up a "rapid response system" to pick the best candidates for its ambitious asteroid-capture mission, which aims to haul a near-Earth object into a stable orbit around the moon.

Why didn't we discover Pluto's moons until more than a decade after Hubble launched? Mark Showalter helps me answer this question.

The retired Earth-watching satellite Landsat 5 may have quit taking pictures of planet, but it's apparently not finished posing in them.

Carnegie Institution for Science: Pasadena, CA-The international consortium of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project has passed two major reviews and is positioned to enter the construction phase. When completed, th...

Orbital wrapped up its first paid cargo delivery-and-disposal mission to the international space station.

Astronomers using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have accounted for a dozen instances of X-ray signals diminished by gas clouds. Scientists have surmised that the clouds can average 4 billion miles a...

A communications satellite built for France-based Eutelsat has arrived in California to be prepared for liftoff from Sea Launch AG's oceangoing rocket pad.

Landing on the moon is no easy feat, and five teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE might just get a little more money to help them send their probes to the lunar surface.

The devastating, explosive deaths of stars appear to be lopsided cosmic conflagrations, scientists say. The new findingsmay be a clue into what exactly happens in the hearts of stars as they explode as supernovas.

The exploration of planets around stars other than the Sun, known as extrasolar planets or 'exoplanets', is one of the most exciting topics of 21st century science. One of the key goals of this research is to discover an...

Two Israeli-built satellites -- one a high-resolution optical reconnaissance spacecraft for the Italian military -- will be launched together in early 2016 aboard a European Vega rocket.

In this image of a dune field on Mars in a large crater near Mawrth Vallis, some of the dunes appear to be in a V-shaped formation....

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(Phys.org) --Astronomers have peered for the first time into the heart of an exploding star in the final minutes of its existence. The feat by the high-energy X-ray satellite NuSTAR provides details of the physics of the...

Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and thanks to the Kepler mission, we can now estimate that every star in our galaxy has on average 1.6 planets in orbit around it. This new video f...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on "Murray Ridge," without any new impact craters nearby.

Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the accreting matter instead forms clumps dense enough to intermitt...

Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the accreting matter instead forms clumps dense enough to intermitt...

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force appear to be nearing a forced conclusion of their multiyear dispute on prices for three Delta 4 rocket missions.