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For someone like Edward Fouad, a junior at Caltech who has always been interested in robotics and mechanical engineering, it was an ideal project: help develop robotic technology that could one day fly on a NASA mission ...

Massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block formation of new stars in aging galaxies, a study has found....

A four-image NAVCAM montage comprises images taken on 18 October from a distance of 9.8 km from the centre of comet 67P/C-G - about 7.8 km from the surface....

After 116 days of being subjected to extremely frigid temperatures like that in space, the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and its sensitive instruments, emerged u...

A federal court ruled against a motion by Sierra Nevada Corp. Oct. 21 to reinstate a suspension of work on CCtCap contracts awarded by NASA last month.

A company called Arx Pax has launched a Kickstarter campaign for what it is calling the Hendo Hoverboard, which may well be the world's first real hoverboard. But the technology the company is using goes far beyond the h...

Astronauts and innovators, including SpaceX's billionaire founder Elon Musk, are descending upon MIT this week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the university's aeronautics and astronautics department.

The sun fired off an X-class solar flare -- the most powerful type -- that peaked at 1:01 a.m. EDT Sunday. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured photos and video of the intense sun storm, which researcher...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: After a successful 116 days test inside the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Md. engineers removed the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites captured before and after images of Bermuda and surrounding waters before and after Hurricane Gonzalo struck the island on Oct. 17. The images revealed how Gonzalo stirred up the sediment...

The Farnsworth Fusor; Pons and Fleishmann. It seems the trail to fusion energy has long gone cold — stone cold, that is, and not cold as in cold fusion. Despite the promise of fusion providing a sustainable and safe en...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "agrees that now is the time to investigate alternatives that would reduce our utilization of the RD-180 engine," Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said.

Crewed missions to Mars remain an essential goal for NASA, but scientists are only now beginning to understand and characterize the radiation hazards that could make such ventures risky, concludes a new paper by Universi...

Some skywatchers captured incredible views of the Orionid meteor shower earlier this week, but even if you can't catch the peaking shower outside tonight (Oct. 21), you can still see it live online.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Opportunity rover have beamed back amazing views of a comet that made an extremely close pass of the Red Planet on Sunday (Oct. 19).

"As long as it's compatible with our master plan and our future planning, we'll entertain it," said Scott Colloredo, director of KSC's Center Planning and Development Directorate.

North Americans, get set for the fourth and final eclipse of the year.

Gemini Observatory : The GMOS-North light curve (top panel) and Fourier transform (bottom panel) for the optical companion to PSR J1738+0333. A comparison star is shown in blue, offset by -7%. We mark the 4 sigma and 3 s...

The study provides a counterpoint to the long-held position of commercial satellite operators that leasing is cheaper than buying.

Massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block formation of new stars in aging galaxies, a study has found.

An international team of physicists has measured a subtle characteristic in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation that will allow them to map the large-scale structure of the universe, determine t...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: Six images that combine Chandra data with those from other telescopes.