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MDA has issued a request for information on a new long-range discrimination radar to identify threats from the Pacific region.

Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching...

Read a Chapter 1 excerpt from the new trade paperback, "The Girls of Atomic City," a novel by Denise Kiernan.

If you have clear weather this evening, you may catch a view of a waning gibbous moon accompanied by a very bright and colorful planet (Mars) to its upper left and a bright blue star (Spica) to its upper right.

A beginner's guide to the BICEP2 discovery of primordial gravitational waves --

Space advocacy groups have existed for more than four decades. While all of these groups are supportive of space exploration, they all have their own unique preferences - and differences....

Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk also spoke at the Explorers Club event and emphasized the importance of a reusable rocket system for space exploration --

Surprised at his home (by gravitational wave co-discoverer Chao-Lin Kao) theoretical physicist Linde had waited for confirmation of his theory for 3 decades.

Imagine that you were in the middle of a module on the International Space Station. Floating in mid-air, far from handholds or any way to propel yourself. Is there any way to get out of that situation? The short answer i...

Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012.

Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon's north polar region. The six-and-a-half feet (two-meters)-per-pixel images cover an...

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in May 2014 to begin a 6-month mission aboard the International Space ...

Energetic solar particles created a powerful 'perfect' storm in space.

The night sky can be a wondrous place filled with stars, but there are some brilliant celestial lights that shine brighter than others. Here's a list of the top 10 brightest stars in the night sky.

This color picture of the Martian horizon was taken by Viking 1 on July 24, 1976.

In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists, including three from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center, uncovers the origin and cause of an extreme space wea...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's 35-year-old Seasat satellite images of Earth, which were recently released, still have potential value for researchers, as outlined in a paper just published in ...

OMG – breathtaking! That was my reaction when I clicked on this incredible new interactive map of the moon’s north polar region. Be prepared to be amazed. It took four years and 10,581 images for the LROC (Lunar Reco...

Skywatchers, get ready to see a rare vanishing act--and don't blink.

The U.S. Defense Department expects to fully extricate itself from that arrangement by May.

Scientists from the Center for Astrophysics have found evidence of gravitational waves created mere moments after the dawn of the Universe. These waves were created in a period of rapid expansion... --