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One small "hot spot" in the U.S. Southwest is responsible for producing the largest concentration of the greenhouse gas methane seen over the United States - more than triple the standard ground-based estimate -- accordi...

ESA Top News: Technology image of the week: Visitors to the ESA Technical Centre's Open Day came face to face with a centaur as they toured the telerobotics laboratory

Harris' Network and Space Operations and Maintenance Contract is one of several being eyed for consolidation as the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center copes with shrinking budgets.

Here's your chance to participate in NASA's 'Journey to Mars' and the first flight of the new Orion spacecraft that will eventually transport humans to the Red Planet. NASA invites you to send your name to Mars. And the ...

The building phase of the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope kicked off today with a groundbreaking/dedication ceremony near the top of Hawaii's Mauna Kea. If all goes according to plan, TMT should begin observing the h...

NASA's newest spacecraft, Orion, will be launching into space for the first time in December 2014, on a flight that will take it farther than any spacecraft built to carry humans has gone in more than 40 years and throug...

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest and most complex organic molecules yet in a gaseous star-forming region of interstellar space. Clara Moskowitz reports. --

NASA's fleet of Red Planet orbiters and rovers will be watching on Oct. 19, when Comet Siding Spring zooms within 87,000 miles of Mars.

NASA announced Oct. 9 that it has lifted an order that halted work on commercial crew contracts awarded last month to Boeing and SpaceX, saying that delaying work during an ongoing contract protest could jeopardize the o...

Over two years ago, the Fermi-LAT Collaboration observed an “ear and eye opening” event – the exact location where a stellar explosion called a nova emitted one of the most energentic forms of electromagnetic waves...

The inspector general found no major issues with the process used in the Astrophysics, Earth Science and Heliophysics divisions.

NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby on Sunday, Oct. 19.

A strange exoplanet 260 light-years from Earth is showing signs of water vapor in its atmosphere, despite scorching temperatures that are hot enough to melt steel, scientists say.

Many "warm Jupiter" alien worlds were probably pulled into their puzzling orbits by nearby planetary neighbors circling on a different plane. The results suggest that not all planetary systems are "flat" like our own sol...

A densely packed star-forming galaxy is reproducing the events that brought light to the early universe.

A team of scientists including a University of Colorado Boulder professor used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an obj...

Hubble Space Telescope News: A team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed map ever of the temperature of an exoplanet's atmosphere, and traced the amount of water it contains...

A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought. Australian astronomers probed the edge of the Milky Way, looking closely, for the fi...

NASA is getting ready for the first test flight of the Orion crew vehicle, currently scheduled for December 4, 2014. “Before we can send astronauts into space on Orion, we have to test all of its systems,” says NASA ...

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Cyclone Hudhud on Oct. 9 and took a picture of the storm that showed it was still somewhat elongated, but more organized than the previous day....

The U.S. jamming was often the subject of Cuban protests at the International Telecommunication Union.

NASA Breaking News: One small "hot spot" in the U.S. Southwest is responsible for producing the largest concentration of the greenhouse gas methane seen over the United States - more than triple the standard ground-based...