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Sure, Bloomberg wrote almost the same story nearly a year ago. But the Washington Post's feature story puts NASA in a rather harsh spotlight just as a new Congress is about to be seated. The post NASA’s A-3 Test Stand ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The "tsunami wave" that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing earlier this year is still propagating outward, according to new results

With the U.S. Air Force and NRO looking at alternative space architectures and contracting schemes, Ball Aerospace feels well-positioned to ride the shifting winds. The post Profile | Dave Kaufman, Ball Aerospace’s VP ...

NASA: Kepler News and Features: On Oct. 20, the Kepler spacecraft joined the fleet of NASA science assets that observed distant Oort Cloud native Comet Siding Spring as it passed through K2's Campaign 2 field-of-view on ...

NASA Breaking News: NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. TESS will launch aboard a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle, with liftoff targeted for Augu...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

If you made a list of jobs for preparing someone to become the steward of the U.S. civil weather satellite enterprise, your list would look a lot like the resume of NASA veteran Stephen Volz. The post Q&A with NOAA’s N...

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats It's the stuff of a science fiction movie: a mysterious form of energy that is pulling the universe apart at an ever-faster rate. Astronomers around...

(Phys.org)--NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic labo...

The Mars Science Laboratory's Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) instrument was used to confirm the presence of methane on several occasions during the rovers' study of the Red Planet.

These finding "strongly suggests that Mars is active" according to atmospheric scientist Sushil K. Atreya of the Mars Science Laboratory mission team as he breaks down possible sources of the methane on Mars.

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robo...

The world's most powerful particle collider is waking up from a well-earned rest. After roughly two years of heavy maintenance, scientists have nearly doubled the power of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in preparation f...

A storm over central South Dakota provided these stunning images for astrophotographer Randy Halverson.

NASA's Curiosity rover has recently made a surprising find on Mars that could help scientists get one step closer to figuring out if the Red Planet has ever supported life.

New results suggest evidence for extraterrestrial life could be near at hand --

The International Astronomical Union has announced a competition to name five craters on Mercury, and the winners will be announced next spring at the end of the MESSENGER spacecraft's mission.

The "tsunami wave" that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing earlier this year is still propagating outward, according to new results. It is the longest-lasting shock wave that researchers have seen in interste...

Planets quite different from our own may be the best homes for life in the universe --

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the January 2015 issue of Scientific American --

ESA Top News: ESA's Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns to raise its orbit following the low-alti...

ESA's Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns to raise its orbit following the low-altitude aerobraki...