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What do you get when you pair brilliant space scientists with musical instruments? The International Space Opera. In the summer of 2012, NASA and SETI scientists performed "Ground Control: An Opera in Space."

The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway, researchers said today.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The new finding that the eventual loss of a major section of West Antarctica's ice sheet "appears unstoppable" was not completely unexpected by scientists who study thi...

The star is streaking through space at 1.4 million mph relative to our solar system, about three times faster than a typical star. It lies 42,400 light-years from Earth and is cruising toward the halo of dark matter that...

Today: Direct Current Switching Unit (DCSU) 3A: The power system remains in a stable configuration following yesterday's DCSU Channel 3A Remote Bus Isolator (RBI) 1 trip. DCSUs 3A and 3B were tied together and all power ...

It's a key piece of the climate change puzzle. For years, researchers have been eyeing the stability of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet as global temperatures rise. Melting of the ice sheet could have dire consequences f...

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The contracts come after a long dry spell for Thales Alenia Space in the geostationary-orbiting commercial satellite sector.

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING): A large international team led by Klaas Wiersema from the University of Leicester has discovered circularly polarised optical emission in the afterglow of GRB 121024A. The study, p...

Almost every historic American launch occurred at one place in Cape Canaveral: Launch Complex 39. Good old LC39 was build for the Apollo spacecraft, and then modified for the Space Shuttle program. And now it’s carryin...

Scientists studying huge glaciers in Antarctica have found that they are already in the early stages of a huge retreat, and--although the entire event may take more than 200 years--this melting may also be unstoppable. B...

A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the gla...

Funny thing. Skywatchers are often just as excited to watch a celestial object disappear as we are to see it make an appearance. Early Wednesday morning (May 14) the Full Flower Moon will slip in front of Saturn, coverin...

After 40 years of observation, NASA and University of California researchers agree that melting of the West Antarctic Glacier has passed the point of no return. It contains enough ice to raise sea levels ~4 feet, but cou...

If there is any superhero who qualifies as a nerd icon, it is Spider-Man and his alter ego, Peter Parker. His powers depend one half on scientific experimentation, one half on personal research and innovation. But unlike...

The HL-20 was one of two concepts considered for the Personnel Launch System.

NASA Breaking News: A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with not...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

Opportunity is closing in on the next important outcrop area on the rim of Endeavour crater.

NASA this week joins with President Obama, the Small Business Administration (SBA), and other federal agencies in recognizing all that our nation's small businesses have accomplished. NASA has a strong relationship with ...

A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the gla...

Zoom! A star was recently spotted speeding at 1.4 million miles an hour (2.2 million km/hr), which happened to be the closest and second-brightest of the so-called “hypervelocity” stars found so far. Now that about 2...