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When the Philae lander arrived at its target comet last week, the little spacecraft landed three times in two hours before coming to a rest. While controllers could see this information from data coming in, they didn’t...

Wow! New images released from the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show the spacecraft coming in for its (first) landing on Wednesday (Nov. 12). “The mosaic comprises a series of images captu...

The last group of astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope discusses its astronomical legacy.

See photos of the new Hubble Space Telescope exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

The first spacecraft to land on a comet has earned a stamp of approval in the UK. Mail delivered in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have been stamped with a postmark celebrating the historic landing by the...

NASA Breaking News: NASA has received an unmodified, or "clean", audit opinion on its fiscal year 2014 financial statements, marking the fourth consecutive year of "clean" opinions.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface featu...

Our focus on female astronomers continues with Sandra Faber, and Professor of Astronomy at UC Santa Cruz. Faber was part of the team that turned up the Great Attractor, a mysterious mass hidden by the disk of the Milky W...

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail....

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter's face is secretly dull in color. But the swirling storm looks crimson thanks to something like a cosmic "sunburn." Gases in Jupiter's upper atmosphere turn reddish when they're hit with sun...

The Made In Space printer was launched aboard the SpaceX CRS-4 mission in Sep. 2014. On Nov. 17th, 2014, the printer was installed into the microgravity science laboratory's glove box. Its first test will occur later in ...

An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A new simulation of C02 in Earth's atmosphere shows how the key greenhouse gas moves around the globe and fluctuates in volume throughout the year.

There is a strong chance Europe's comet lander will wake up from hibernation as it nears the sun, raising hopes for a second series of scientific measurements from the surface next year, scientists involved in the missio...

Last week, the European Space Agency landed a space probe on a comet. It was big news--historic, even. But another event caused a stir at the same time, tangentially related to the event. Matt Taylor, the Rosetta mission...

The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight and you can watch it live online.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M5.7-class, peaking at 12:48 p.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an ima...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's InSight mission has begun its assembly, test and launch operations phase, on track for a March 2016 launch to Mars.

"Life in Antarctica, in the form of algal mats, is very resistant to extremely cold and dry conditions and simply waits for the episodic infusion of water to 'bloom' and develop," says James W. Head, professor of earth, ...

When Rosetta was launched more than a decade ago, it was a dry-as-dust science story--an unmanned spacecraft and its research payload were being launched to investigate a comet.

In the future, as space exploration takes astronauts on longer missions and more female astronauts participate, "The Impact of Sex and Gender on Adaptation to Space" will become increasingly critical to astronaut safety ...

How hazardous are the thousands and millions of asteroids that surround the third rock from the Sun - Earth? Since an asteroid impact represents a real risk to life and property, this is a question that has been begging ...