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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe - among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old telescope....

It's easier to detect exoplanets around M-dwarfs, the most common type of star in our galaxy, but these worlds also may suffer from a life-threatening solar wind --

While Earth's upper atmosphere may soon be a destination for space tourists, scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have set their sights on being among the first to blaze a researc...

(Phys.org) --Astronomers studying two classes of black-hole-powered galaxies monitored by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found evidence that they represent different sides of the same cosmic coin. By unravel...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: For a select few students, summer internships at Goddard are just what they need to help their dreams take flight.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new educational exhibit that mixes the world of "The Avengers" with a super-powered dose of NASA science and technology recently premiered in New York City.

A little agriculture and a planned 'room extension' are keeping astronauts busy on the International Space Station. Lettuce is ready for harvesting, while an "add-a-room" module is being readied for testing.

Supermassive black holes at the cores of large galaxies can power bright jets of super-fast gas. Those spitting out the highest amount of energy are called 'blazars.' Astronomers believed there were 2 types but new evide...

Asteroid 2014 HQ124 was discovered on April 23rd, 2014 and its closest approach (~3 Lunar distances) will occur June 8th. Current estimates show it to be between .25 miles - .56 miles wide, and traveling at 31,000 mph.

One of the biggest leaps in astronomy made by the Hubble Space Telescope was something dreamed up long after it launched: Taking extremely long exposure images of a part of the sky unobscured by foreground junk (like sta...

NASA, MIT successfully test broadband connections between the Earth and the moon. The data rate achieved with lasers beats any Wi-Fi on Earth.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon Mark II capsule is designed to bring crews to the Space Station, then re-enter and land upright on solid ground for rapid reconditioning and reuse.

(Phys.org) --Nearly a million seconds of observing time with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way glittering with hundreds of X-ray points of light.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: Nearly a million seconds of observing time with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way glittering with hundreds of X-ray points of light.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving universe--and one of the most colorful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble ...

The three aerospace companies competing to build astronaut taxis for NASA have completed the first stage of flight certification under the agency's Commercial Crew Program, officials announced on Friday (May 30).

To celebrate the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's 5th birthday, NASA officials are putting together a collection, called "The Moon as Art," and they want your vote to decide which LRO image will grace the cover.

By combining ultraviolet light with visible and near-infrared wavelengths, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) project has captured the most comprehensive picture to date of star formation occurring between 5 and 10 bill...

Shock waves! Fast-moving particles! Magnetic fields! This image has it all. Behold the merging galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745 about five billion light-years from our planet. That funny red thing you see in the center is...

Hubble Space Telescope News: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe -- and one of the most colourful. The study is called the Ult...

(Phys.org) --Astronomers are eagerly waiting to begin use of a new instrument to study celestial objects: a high-resolution, mid-infrared spectrograph mounted on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (S...

NASA's flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight. The first launch opportunity for the...