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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the images in this amazing space wallpaper showing the dancing auroral lights at Saturn's north pole.

Do you lack a telescope, but have a burning desire to look for asteroids near Earth? No problem! NASA and the Slooh telescope network will soon have you covered, as the two entities have signed a new agreement allowing c...

(Phys.org) --A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these inters...

Next Thursday (May 29), the company will unveil the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft, which SpaceX hopes will be ferrying people to and from the International Space Station a few short years from now.

(Phys.org) --Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

A new meteor shower from the Comet 209P/LINEAR could be a spectacular display tomorrow night (May 23). NASA's Bill Cooke discusses the rare Camelopardalid meteor shower on Space.com.

The U.S. Navy successfully launched a Standard Missile-3 -- traditionally a ship-based, anti-ballistic missile -- from an onshore launch site for the first time, military officials announced today (May 21).

Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)....

The U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency conducted a test of Aegis Ashore Weapon System with the launch of the SM-3 Block IB guided missile from Kauai, Hawaii.

To highlight the direction for life and physical sciences aboard the International Space Station, a panel of experts gathered May 21 for the Destination Station: International Space Station Science Forum. This forum, the...

                In about a month’s time, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft will adjust its orbit and dip into the outer... --

The crew of the U.S.S. Kearsarge spell out the words "Mercury 9" on the deck.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes by NASA's WISE challenges an old theory.

NASA signed a nonreimbursable Space Act Agreement with Skycorp to give the company legal approval to contact, command and control the ISEE-3.

Today: Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE)-M-2 Sample Mixing: Commander (CDR) Swanson mixed ACE-M-2 samples in preparation for sample analysis which will take place in the Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR) at a later date....

NASA Breaking News: Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: For Earth Day this year, NASA invited people around the world to step outside to take a "selfie" and share it with the world on social media.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A NASA-led study may help narrow the range of climate models' global temperatures forecasts.

See photos of the Aegis Ashore Weapon System launch test, the first to launch an SM-3 missile from land, on May 20, 2014. The U.S. Navy performed the test from Kawaii, Hawaii in a flight overseeen by the U.S. Missile Def...

Visiting Mars in 2030 is going to take some engineering ingenuity, but making sure astronauts make the long, cramped journey without driving each other crazy is going to be just as tricky.

A supergiant star exploded 23.5 million years ago in one of the largest and brightest nearby galaxies. This spring we finally got the news. In April, the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) as part of the Lick Obs...

Space.com shadowed a group of students from the University of California, San Diego who were selected by NASA to test an experiment onboard a zero-gravity flight.