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A new Hubble image, captured on March 11, shows what appear to be two jets of dust coming off the nucleus of Comet Siding Spring, which on Oct. 19 will miss Mars by just 84,000 miles -- about one-third the distance betwe...

Some of the most well-known star patterns in the sky aren't constellations, they're asterisms.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has captured a shadow selfie on a slope it is exploring with an increasing power supply, as winds remove some dust and spring days grow lo...

See photos and images of the Mars-bound comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, which will buzz the Red Planet on Oct. 19, 2014. Comet Siding Spring was discovered in January 2013. Its pass through the inner solar system will be ...

Astrophotographer Robert Fields captured this photo of Messier 42, or the Orion nebula, from Irvington Observatory of Howell Twp, Miss. See how he made its crazy colors here.

NASA officials are starting work on mission-related technology as directed by President Barack Obama in the 2015 budget blueprint sent to Congress in early March.

(Phys.org) --British technologies are at the heart of the world's largest radio telescope and British scientists will be amongst the first in line to use it in 2015.

(Phys.org) --ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January.

Can you spot the Grand Canyon in this picture? It is surprisingly hard to see. Astronaut Koichi Wakata took this picture on March 26, 2014 from the International Space Station, and thankfully he provided a clue: look bot...

It looks like a giant sandbox--except the sand has a reddish tint and the "toys" on display are very expensive prototypes designed to withstand the rigors of landing on Mars.

Asian satellite fleet operators and service providers said they expected novel partnerships among them to continue and that consolidation is still a long ways off.

The first aircraft purchased by the NACA.

After a long hibernation, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is catching up with its destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

On its Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA hopes to 'encapsulate' an asteroid using a robot ship - and also remove a boulder - before bringing the mass in range of astronauts to perform some, yet unexplained, tasks.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and members of the House Science space subcommittee traded jabsabout whose fault it is that U.S. astronauts will not launch on U.S. spacecraft for at least another three years.

Comet Siding Spring, on its way to a close brush with Mars on October 19, has been kicking up a storm lately. New images from Hubble Space Telescope taken on March 11, when the comet was just this side of Jupiter, reveal...

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January....

(Phys.org) --NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars--less than half the distance between Earth and our moon.

Warren Ashley, pioneer of distance learning at CSUDH, passed away March 21, 2014. His idea led to the partnership between CSUDH and The Planetary Society to produce an online Introductory Astronomy course.

NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and our moon....

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, in tandem with other major NASA observatories, has recently embarked on a major new mission to glimpse the universe's very first galaxies.

An animated NASA Administrator defended the commercial crew program as the fastest way to return to American access to low-Earth orbit in a hearing before the House Space Subcommittee today.