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OMPS, one of five instruments set to launch on the JPSS-1 weather monitoring satellite, is ready to be integrated with the spacecraft bus.

Samples scooped from the Martian atmosphere could provide scientists with their first hands-on experience with the red planet.

High-mass stars are rarely solitary. This is what Bochum's astronomers found out at the Ruhr-Universität's (RUB's) observatory in Chile. For several years, they observed 800 celestial objects that are up to one hundred ...

Space tourism firm Space Adventures says two customers have paid deposits for a flight around the moon on a Soyuz spacecraft, but the trip requires major changes to the Russian crew capsule, a vehicle that has seen only ...

As experiments in relocating particles advance, will we be able to say, "Beam me up, Scotty" one day soon?

Astronauts in the C-131 "vomit comet" simulate weightless flight.

Scientists will use the space agency's Hubble Space Telescope to search for another faraway object that could be visited by the New Horizons mission after the Pluto encounter, which is scheduled to take place in July 201...

Europe's most active volcano - Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily - continued to erupt on June 16th, 2014. Spectacular footage show the eruption from its southern crater.

(Phys.org) --After careful consideration and analysis, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee has recommended using Hubble to search for an object the Pluto-bound NASA New Horizons mission could visit after...

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New image technology helped give NASA the chance to show people the 'Beast' asteroid as it came close to Earth. It should boost the space agency's effort to keep pushing forward.

A powerful new model to detect life on planets outside of our solar system, more accurately than ever before, has been developed by UCL (University College London) researchers.

An Italian coffee company builds the first zero-gravity espresso machine, the ISSpresso, to send along with an Italian astronaut launching into space this fall. Jen Markham explains.

Caught on camera by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a prominence blazes hundreds of thousands of miles out from the Sun’s surface (i.e., photosphere) on May 27, 2014. The image above, seen in extreme ultraviolet w...

Europe’s powerful Milky Way mapper is facing some problems as controllers ready the Gaia telescope for operations. It turns out that there is “stray light” bleeding into the telescope, which will affect how well it...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: On Thursday, June 19, NASA will host a televised update on recent progress and upcoming milestones in the agency's efforts to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid, and...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be folded up for its launch to an orbit nearly a million miles from Earth. Voice actor Peter Cullen describes how its 'transformed' to a working telescope and the science it will perfo...

Six percent of red-dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found. Red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy; about 75 percent of...

This gorgeous picture (and yes, you want to see it in all its jaw-dropping full-resolution glory) shows tropical cyclone Cristina, a massive storm off the coast of Mexico. It formed in early June 2014 and grew incredibly...

Students and educators from across the United States will become "rocket scientists" during two workshops at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this month.

The launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission (OCO-2) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for Tuesday, July 1. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 2 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II...

After careful consideration and analysis, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee has recommended using Hubble to search for an object the Pluto-bound NASA New Horizons mission could visit after its flyby of...