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It may be the chance of a lifetime for planetary science. This October, a comet will brush past a planet, giving scientists a chance to study how it possibly interacts with a planetary atmosphere. The comet is C/2013 A1 ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: For the first time, NASA scientists have used GPS to find the total weight of winter snowpack and soil moisture in California's Sierra Nevada.

British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger, whose single-minded determination all but forced the European Space Agency to launch the ill-fated Beagle 2 lander to Mars in 2003, is dead at 70.

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 6:07 a.m. EDT on May 8, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured images of it.

Rosetta is in the final stage of its approach to comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Yesterday, the spacecraft successfully performed the first of ten burns it needs to match velocity with the comet.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower has graced the skies this week and while this hasn’t been an exceptionally active shower, here are a few beautiful photos we’ve received. Above astrophotographer Justin Ng climbed Mount ...

The 2015 defense authorization bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee aims to put the brakes on Air Force efforts to examine alternative architectures.

A team of researchers led by University of Texas at Austin astronomer Ivan Ramirez has identified the first "sibling" of the Sun -- a star that was almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our...

NASA research pilot and aeronautical engineer passed away on My 6th, 2014. In his 48 year career,he flew more than 8,000 hours in over 60 different aircraft. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1997.

A new study of NGC 2024 and the Orion Nebula Cluster show stars on the outskirts of these clusters are older than those in the middle....

Amir Alexander's new book about an epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it.

Judge Susan Braden had cited the possibility that money from the transactions could wind up in the hands of Dmitry Rogozin, one of 11 senior Russian officials sanctioned by the U.S. government.

Watch another universe unfold as simulated by Illustris, using a model that required 8,000 processors running in parallels 3 months to create!

The recording artist promoted the Orion capsule ands Space Launch Systems in this public service announcement.

There is still much to learn from the cosmic microwave background after astronomers found evidence of primordial gravitational waves within it, astronomers say.

Discover the Universe including the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, galaxies, life and more in this video of class 13 of Bruce Betts' Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

The International Space Station is down one power channel because of an electrical malfunction. But NASA says everyone and everything is safe up there.

On March 29, 2014, an X-class flare erupted from the right side of the sun and vaulted into history as the best-observed flare of all time. See the photos here.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M5.2, peaking at 6:07 a.m. EDT on May 8, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of it.

On March 29, 2014, an X-class flare erupted from the right side of the sun... and vaulted into history as the best-observed flare of all time....

So hey, remember on Tuesday when I wrote about the massive new climate change report that paints a stark, detailed, and highly evidence-based picture about how global warming is hitting the U.S. now, and what our hotter ...

An alternative energy research project, NASA and the ERDA installed this turbine at the Plum Brook Facility.