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NASA: Kepler News and Features: Today the team announces a change in project management.

Skywatchers will get a chance to see Jupiter and the moon dazzle in the western sky this weekend (May 3 and 4). Here's how to see it.

Gamma-ray bursts, the brightest flashes in the universe, may give off an afterglow full of light waves that move in corkscrew-shaped spirals, sort of like the filtered light that makes watching 3D movies possible, new re...

Nili Patera is one of the most active dune fields on Mars. As such, it is continuously monitored with the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, a science instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...

For the past year, astronomers around the world have been watching the center of the Milky Way in anticipation of a once-per-eon event. Right around now (or, technically, 24,000 years ago--that's... --

Earth may pass through the dust trails of Comet 209P/LINEAR's past orbits, and predictions range from 100 to a 'stormy' 1000 meteors an hour. Also, great views of Saturn, Mars and comet PanStarrs (C/2012 K1) will be avai...

A congressional defense panel is recommending that the U.S. Defense Department spend $220 million next year to develop an American alternative to the Russian-made RD-180 engine that powers the first stage of the Atlas 5 ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly build.

In the movies, humans often fear invaders from Mars. These days, scientists are more concerned about invaders to Mars, in the form of micro-organisms from Earth. Three recent scientific papers examined the risks of inter...

The latest observations by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii show that the gas cloud called "G2" was surprisingly still intact, even during its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way ...

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CNES signed with NASA a formal work-share agreement on the SWOT altimetry satellite to be launched in 2020.

The Gimbal Rig was designed to simulate the motions of a space capsule, training astronauts to control the craft.

Asteroid 2014 HL129 will fly nearly 187,000 miles away (.7 Lunar distance) from Earth on its closest approach on May 3rd, 2014. It is an estimated 32-feet-wide.

A lightweight Vega launcher raced into space from French Guiana on Tuesday night (April 29), boosting a European-built satellite into a 466-mile-high polar orbit with a high-resolution telescope to survey cities, natural...

A moon rocket thundering from a pad in Florida. Two moons discovered around Mars. Space tourism. These are all things that are part of history today — and which were also predicted in literature years or decades before...

It remains unclear whether the European Soyuz will ever be affected by the expanding sanctions imposed by the United States and other governments against Russia.

Two years ago, an intense solar storm, a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun, narrowly missed Earth. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still be picking up the pieces....

A prototype of NASA's Morpheus lander kicked up a cloud of fake moon dust as it touched down softly on a mock lunar landscape in Florida in this week.

The Falcon 9R rocket rose to a height of 3280 feet (1000 meters) in its latest test, posted on May 1st, 2014. The legs were in a fixed down position from launch to landing, but future tests will begin with them stowed.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman of Baltimore, Md., who is making final preparations for a May launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6 to 7 a.m. EDT Friday, May 9.