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Active regions 2108 and 2109 are now passing around the limb of the Sun, but not before solar photography specialist Alan Friedman grabbed a few pictures of them on Friday! The image above, captured by Alan from his loca...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to develop a fully-reusable unmanned spaceplane, and they are now ready to start working their proposed Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1). The agency has put ...

(Phys.org) --A heat-sensing camera designed at Arizona State University has provided data to create themost detailed global map yet made of Martian surface properties.

A number of studies have shown that dark matter is the principle mass component of the universe making up about 80% of the mass budget. The most direct technique to reveal the dark matter distribution is by using the gra...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded initial design contracts for its Experimental Spaceplane project, known as XS-1, to three different companies: Boeing, Masten Space Systems and Northrop G...

This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called "Lebanon," similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the previous generation of rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Leban...

Talk about heavy metal! This shiny, lumpy rock spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover is likely made mostly of iron — and came from outer space! It’s an iron meteorite, similar to ones found in years past by Curiosity�...

ABS and Arabsat announced a strategic partnership in which Arabsat will lease 10 Ku-band transponders on the ABS-3A satellite for 15 years to cover the Middle East and North Africa.

NASA plans to parcel out $25 million to study scientific instruments for a proposed probe to Europa.

World View Enterprises is developing capsules transported by high-altitude balloons and parafoil to 100,000 feet. A scaled version of the capsule broke the record for highest parafoil flight at 120,000 feet (and the view...

For a German astronaut living in space, his home country's epic World Cup victory this week was quite literally out-of-this-world.

NASA Breaking News: A new NASA-developed computer software tool designed to aid air traffic controllers was presented to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during a ceremony Monday at the agency's headquarters in ...

The Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) is a re-usable unmanned vehicle with the ability to deploy small satellites using expendable upper stages.

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope: Large number of Dark Matter peaks found using Gravitational Lensing.

This colorized image of Jupiter's moon Europa is a product of clear-filter grayscale data from one orbit of NASA's Galileo spacecraft, combined with lower-resolution color data taken on a different orbit....

Looks like NASA’s Reid Wiseman is at it again. The prolific social-media-posting astronaut on the International Space Station just put up this Vine video showing auroras shining over Australia. Hard to believe this was...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Atmospheric physicist Ralph Kahn works with a brilliant climate change community, from the national to international level.

Countdown! Just under one year from now, the New Horizons will finally reach its mission goal after sailing through the solar system for the better part of a decade. It will fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons on...

A Mercury spacecraft lands in the ocean after launched from Little Joe in a High-Q-Abort test.

Beginning in the late 1960s with the Mariner 4, 6, and 7 fly-bys, spacecraft began imaging Mars from closer perspectives....

The companies selected are: Boeing, working with Blue Origin; Masten Space Systems working with XCOR Aerospace; and Northrop Grumman with Virgin Galactic.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA marks the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing this month while it takes the steps needed for America's next giant leap to send astronauts to Mars.