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Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of a research team that has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. The team, including scientists from California Institute...

Host Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the 'Ship of the Imagination' travel to the comet at edge of the solar system and explains how it 'falls' back to the inner solar system. The all-new "When Knowledge Conquered Fear" episode a...

A slumbering monster known as Sagittarius A* sits quietly at the center of our galaxy — for now.

The new mosaic -- which was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter -- resolves features as small as 6.5 feet, providing information that could be used for landing-site scouting or to answer various questions abo...

New SEC rules expected to be published this spring that would allow startups to raise as much as $1 million a year by sharing equity with hundreds or thousands of individual investors could bolster space-related startups...

For the first time, scientists have found primordial gravitational waves -- long-sought evidence of cosmic inflation theory. Cosmic inflation suggests that the universe expanded at many times the speed of light a fractio...

Scientists have discovered a new, persistent structure in Earth's inner radiation belt using data from the twin NASA Van Allen Probes spacecraft.

Earth’s inner radiation belt displays a curiously zebra-esque striped pattern, according to the latest findings from NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes. What’s more, the cause of the striping seems to be the rotation of ...

Check out the groove! In the blink of a geological lifetime, a new gully has appeared on the planet Mars. These images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a new channel in the southern hemisphere region of Ter...

Simon Kattenhorn and Louise Prockter may finally have found subduction zones on Europa, which would it the only other place in the solar system besides Earth that is known to have active plate tectonics.

Gloomy weather over New York could drown out a rare opportunity to see a bright star disappear from the sky very early tomorrow morning during what's known as an "occultation." The star Regulus, one... --

The March full Moon, sometimes called the “Worm Moon” for signaling the coming of spring in the northern hemisphere. This artistically stunning image taken by astrophotopher Miguel Claro is a sequence of 93 images ta...

With the announcement of the upcoming movie - whose plot is set 30 years after 'Return of The Jedi' - Newsy rounds up information and informed speculation about the film.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Before-and-after observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter document the formation of a new gully channel, which likely resulted from action of dry-ice frost.

Photographer Matt Hartman captured this stunning image of an airplane streaking across a huge Full 'Worm' Moon on Sunday (March 16) as full moon of March lit up the Los Angeles sky.

I gave a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this year where I summarized the planetary budget situation. Here is that talk.

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques explains how the Station's Canadarm2 captures spacecraft using a Canadian Space Agency simulator. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen hosts.

The zodiacal light is one of the faintest celestial features you can see in the night sky, but only if you know how to look. The next two weeks are prime times to seek out the faint zodiacal light caused by sunlight refl...

Skywatchers will get a glimpse of some truly amazing night sky events in 2014, from an asteroid zooming past one of the night sky's brightest stars to amazing full moons and Martian meteor showers. See the highlights in ...

Watch live at 7:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 19, as host and moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson leads the 2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, Selling Space, with a panel of entrepreneurs and space... --

NASA along with space agencies around the world are preparing for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge, which will be held April 12-13. Participants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, da...

Hot off of the popularity of the Cosmos reboot, host Neil deGrasse Tyson is going to host a panel at 7:30 p.m. EDT (11:30 p.m. UTC) tonight about “selling space.” Check it out in the livestream above. Here is the des...