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A proposed quantum clock network would be so accurate it could detect continental shifts, potentially detecting an earthquake.

Astronauts on the International Space Station watched as a private rocket carrying supplies for the orbiting outpost exploded just after launch.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.

As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas....

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats The universe is an infinite sea of galaxies, which are majestic star-cities. When galaxies group together in massive clusters, some of them can be r...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: There is a little-known law of physics: put three physicists in a basement at night and you get a rock band.

(Phys.org) --NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago. The mayhem happened 4 billion ligh...

(Phys.org) --As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.

Forty-five years ago, astronaut Neil Armstrong added his autograph to an envelope for one purpose: that it be sold to provide for his family in the event he did not make it back from the moon. Now, that iconic autograph ...

Scientists have found evidence of water in our inner solar system 135 million years earlier than previously thought.

Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity of life. While water is essential for life on the planet,.....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak size on Sept. 11, according to scientists from NASA and NOAA.

I sat straight up in my seat when I learned of the discovery of a possible new supernova in the bright Virgo galaxy M61. Since bright usually means close, this newly exploding star may soon become visible in smaller tele...

A team of planetary scientsts have compared their findings to data gathered from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and have concluded that the atmospheric mass of the planets Kepler found is, in some cases, fa...

NASA released images of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia following the catastrophic failure of Orbital Science's Antares rocket shortly after liftoff on Tuesday, Oct. 28. ...

NASA and the private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences Corp. have started surveying the damage left behind after a rocket explosion on Tuesday evening (Oct. 28).

The ISS Progress 57 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 29th, 2014. It docked to the International Space Station's Pirs Docking Compartment a few hours later.

These officials said their 40-strong engineering team preparing the IXV for a mid-November launch aboard a European Vega had worked nights and weekends to make the November date.

Find out where to find Mars, Jupiter and Mercury this month. Pisces and Aries constellations along with the Triangulum galaxy are great targets as well. Lastly, Earth travels through Comet Tempel-Tuttle's dust trail.

The ability to engage in extended hibernation might be what saved ancestral mammals from extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Karen Hopkin reports --

Under the CJS spending bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee in June but derailed by election-year politics that had nothing to do with space, NASA would get $17.9 billion for 2015, some $250 million more ...

Australian physicists are challenging the foundations of quantum science with a new, and of course, unfalsifiable, theory based on the existence of, and interactions between, parallel universes. The team proposes that pa...