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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has maneuvered into place for close-up examination of a sandstone surface, a possible target for the mission's next drilling into a rock.

After separating from the upper stage that sent Dragon to orbit, Falcon 9's first stage fired back up, steered itself back down to sea level, extended its landing legs, and turned itself vertical more or less as it would...

Learn about the formation and origin of the Solar System and go beyond our neighborhood to investigate exoplanets (planets around other stars) in this video of class 11 of Bruce Betts' Introduction to Planetary Science a...

SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against the US Air Force over its decision to issue multibillion dollar national security launch contracts with a single company, CEO Elon Musk said Friday.

SpaceX is filing a formal protest in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over a multibillion-dollar U.S. Air Force contract to its incumbent, ULA.

(Phys.org) --A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind--as frosty as Earth's North Pole--has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (W...

The private spaceflight company SpaceX is filing an official protest against the U.S. Air Force in federal court, SpaceX's billionaire founder, Elon Musk, told reporters today (April 25).

Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Morgan Rehnberg, Brian Koberlein, David Dickinson, Jason Major This Week’s Stories: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter): EVA Cosmos SpaceX announcements Brian Koberlein (@bri...

If you’re reading this then you’re probably a big fan of space exploration. And while on one hand you could say that we are now living in a “golden age” of exploration, what with the ongoing missions there are ar...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The activities in the littleBits Space Kit were designed and written by Aura Mission scientists and engineers in collaboration with littleBits Electronics.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that surprisingly ...

Want to see some massive nuclear explosions? Watch what will happen to this binary star system when Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky shown above, runs out of fuel. In this week's episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson e...

U.S.-built satellites and satellites with U.S. components scheduled for launch this year from Russian territory are now faced with being denied the normally routine shipment approvals.

A ramjet engine burns during a flight test for the P-61.

This image over the west coast of the Netherlands is one of the early radar scans by the Sentinel-1A satellite, which was launched on 3 April....

How can an exploding star appear far brighter than expected? This question vexed astronomers since the discovery of PS1-10afx, supernova that was about 30 times more luminous than other Type 1A supernovas. Astronomers ha...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded prime contracts to eight companies earlier this month, advancing its satellite-servicing Phoenix program to Phase 2 of development.

The way NASA chief Charles Bolden sees it, the future of U.S. space exploration is in deep space, and the only way to get there is with the commercial space industry and working on an international basis with countries l...

A cool new map produced by an amateur astronomer lets interested skywatchers see what next week's solar eclipse will look like from any part of the world.

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth's North ...

Students and educators from Butler University in Indianapolis will at gather at Children's Museum Indianapolis for a live conversation with astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station.

After a year-long competition among high school teams across the country, evaluators from NASA, Lockheed Martin and the National Institute of Aerospace have selected Team ARES, from the Governor's School for Science and ...