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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Twenty teams of students from Southern California middle and high schools, plus seven JPL teams, competed in the JPL Invention Challenge, called "Keep It Moving."

Stunning photos captured today's epic first test launch of the Orion spacecraft, which will one day carry humans to deep-space destinations.

An Ariane 5 has lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits.

Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offe...

The successful first flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft on Dec. 5 not only was a historic moment for the agency - but also was a critical step on NASA's Journey to Mars....

NASA's first capsule built to take humans to Mars just completed a seemingly flawless first test flight, and experts are overjoyed with the spacecraft's performance

This image of Romania - with the political borders in red - is a mosaic of 15 scans by Sentinel-1A's radar in October and November. The scans were acquired in 'dual polarisation' horizontal and vertical radar pulses, fro...

The New Horizons probe is coming out of hibernation for the last time as it approaches the dwarf planet Pluto and the icy depths of our solar system.

That picture may not look like much at first glance, but it's actually very exciting: That is Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system, as seen by the Dawn spacecraft, currently on its way there for a rendezvous n...

What is so important about Mars, in particular, that ESA supports not one but two missions and wants to send humans to the Red Planet?

Recovery crews aboard the USS Anchorage had their cameras rolling when NASA's next generation capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 5th, 2014.

It was the first in a long series of tests that NASA, and the public, hope will one day lead to a human mission to Mars. And what a mission it was. Even with a one day launch delay, you...