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Elon Musk discussed the worst year of his life in a new interview with "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley.

Enceladus has an extensive water ocean under its icey crust, feeding water jets that emerge from near the south pole.

ESA Top News: The ability of European citizens, policymakers and service providers to access key environmental data on a routine basis will take a major step forward following the launch today of ESA's Sentinel-1A satell...

Ever since the Cassini spacecraft first spied water vapor and ice spewing from fractures in Enceladus' frozen surface in 2005, scientists have hypothesized that a large reservoir of water lies beneath that icy surface, p...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has reached a waypoint selected months ago as the location for the mission's next major investigations.

Sentinel-1 lifted off on a Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST)

Avenir has asked the company to sell itself wholly or partially, saying Iridium management has consistently ignored the interests of its shareholders and been unable to estimate the cost of its second-generation satellit...

Mars attacks and comes to a night sky near you this month, and the folks at the Virtual Telescope Project and Slooh are bringing it to you live and in color. Unlike most planets, "Mars viewing season" comes around only o...

(Phys.org) --NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, and found it definitely lives up to its nickname--El Gordo (Spanish for "t...

It sounds like a remarkable story, almost unbelievable: Anders Helstrup went skydiving nearly two years ago near Hedmark, Norway and while he didn't realize it at the time, when he reviewed the footage taken by two camer...

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent pictures back to Earth depicting an icy Saturnian moon spewing water vapor and ice from fractures, known as "tiger stripes," in its frozen surface. It was big news that tiny Encela...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: In addition to doing cutting-edge atmospheric science, ATTREX team shared the excitement of their scientific mission with students, teachers in Guam.

Some of the most iconic artifacts of U.S. aviation and space history will be getting an updated display for the 21st century, with the Apollo moon landing as the centerpiece.

See photos and images of Vancouver-based UrtheCast's HD cameras from their perch on the International Space Station in this Space.com gallery.

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude to continue making science observations prior to its planned impact on the moon's su...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: This is a composite image of X-rays from Chandra and optical data from Hubble of the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915, located about 7 billion light years from Earth.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft....

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: A new study of gamma-ray light from the center of our galaxy makes the strongest case to date that some of this emission may arise from dark matter, an unknown substance makin...

Enceladus' ocean is about 6 miles deep and lies beneath a shell of ice 19 to 25 miles thick. Further, it's in direct contact with a rocky seafloor, theoretically making possible all kinds of complex chemical reactions.

Using data from a close fly-by of the moon by NASA Cassini probe, researchers have suggested that there is something dense beneath 18 to 24 miles of ice. Liquid water is the most likely suspect, Sapienza Universit scient...

ESA Top News: Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft.