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The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an amazing near quarter-century of science from all over the universe. Even this year, it’s delivered results to think about: the shrinking Great Red Spot on Jupiter (see pictur...

The U.S. Navy was forced to postpone the final certification test of its next-generation mobile satellite communications system to December 2015 because of problems integrating the system's new radio frequency waveform w...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA's exploration roadmap aimed at sending Humans to Mars got off the ground magnificently with the flawless launch and landing of the agency's new Orion deep space capsule on its maiden voy...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a peculiar place. Unlike any other moon, it has a dense atmosphere. It has rivers and lakes made up of components of natural gas, such as ethane and methane. It also has windswept dunes t...

In 2012 the Mars Science Laboratory landed in the fascinating Gale crater. The Gale crater is of such great interest because of the 5.5 km high mountain of layered materials in the middle. This material tells an intricat...

"I think the characterization of this as a massive leap and the first step on our way to Mars is disingenuous," former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver told MSNBC. The post VIDEO | Lori Garver Calls Link between Ori...

(Phys.org)--Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

Don’t forget about Philae! The comet lander made a touchdown a month ago this week on its target, marking the first time we’ve ever made a soft landing on such a body. Celebrations were quickly mixed with confusion, ...

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an Irish astronomer, best known for being part of the team that discovered pulsars, and the following controversy when she was excluded from the Nobel Prize winning team. (...)Read the rest of Ast...

Highlights of recent research conducted on the International Space Station....

Today: Microbiome: Cristoforetti completed survey questions, set up for the body surface and perspiration sampling operation, and performed the body sample collection throughout the day. Wilmore collected surface samples...

Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years....

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just woke up from its long nap, and now it’s on final approach towards its next destination: Pluto. Over the next few months, Pluto will be getting bigger and bigger in the front window...

NASA Breaking News: Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

The Sun is bubbling, forming mysterious finger-like plasma structures in its gaseous envelope, the corona. A German-American team headed by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research has now succeeded in explaini...

A gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, may have triggered a mass extinction on Earth within the past billion years, researchers say.

Physicists have teleported a light particle 15 miles (25 kilometers), making it the farthest quantum teleportation yet.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: There aren't enough people on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System team to field both sides of a football scrimmage, but there are enough to build and test the Earth-observing instrum...

Imagine, if you would, a potential future for humanity... Imagine massive space-elevators lifting groups of men, women, and children skyward off Earth's surface. These passengers are then loaded onto shuttles and ferried...

After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles--the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target--NASA's New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation on Dec. 6 for its long-awa...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

In 2012 theCuriosity Rover's Mars Science Laboratory landed in Gale crater, with goal to look for chemical evidence of ancient life preserved within exposures near the base of a five-kilometers high mound of layered mate...