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A single aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s accounted for half of all UFO sightings collected by the Air Force at the time, according to a newly highlighted CIA report. The agency made a coy reference to the report on its T...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso.

The voice of the late astronomer Carl Sagan plays over footage of the recent test flight of the Orion spaceship, in a new video by Space City Films.

“By the Light of the Silvery Moon” goes the song. But the color and appearance of the Moon depends upon the particular set of eyes we use to see it. Human vision is restricted to a narrow slice of the electromagnetic...

Motors whirred as a gleaming white dome slowly opened, allowing one of the premier solar telescopes in the world to track the magnetic fields and exploding flares of the sun. In a few hours, computers would translate tha...

The vast majority of people who want to fly to suborbital space and back are medically fit to do so, according to researchers at Virgin Galactic, which is developing the commercial spaceliner SpaceShipTwo.

NASA Breaking News: NASA researchers will present a wide range of new astrophysics findings at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

The U.S. Defense Department and the Japanese Ministry of Defense have deployed a second ballistic missile defense radar in Kyogamisaki to better protect both countries from an attack from North Korea. The post U.S. Deplo...

WASHINGTON -- NASA plans to award unfunded Space Act Agreements to four U.S. companies in a bid to rush new space technologies to the shelves in five years or fewer, the agency announced in a Dec. 23 press release. NASA ...

Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is asking to hear your resolutions for 2015 in a new video released by the famous spaceflyer on Dec. 27.

A late surge of launch activity, primarily by China and Russia, pushed the total number of orbital launches worldwide in 2014 to its highest level in 20 years. The post Launch Activity Hits 20-year High in 2014 appeared ...

'Interstellar' star Jessica Chastain isn't content to explore the universe just on the silver screen. The actress appears in a new NASA video hailing the agency's efforts in space science and exploration.

Science@NASA: Launching in January 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Mapping satellite (SMAP) will track water in the soil. Data gathered using the satellite's unusual antenna with help forecast weather, floods, drought, crop y...

The early Solar System was a shooting gallery. Smaller-body collisions happened far more frequently than we see it today, pockmarking the Moon and Mercury. On a larger scale, simulation show the Earth came close to blowi...

NASA researchers will present a wide range of new astrophysics findings at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

Problems with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's flash memory have intensified over recent weeks, so Discovery News Space Producer Ian O'Neill spoke with NASA Project Manager John Callas about the severity of th...

"Somewhere, Something Incredible is Waiting to be Known" --Carl Sagan

A new Avengers movie. A reboot of the Star Wars franchise. The final installment of the Hunger Games. The Martian makes it to the big screen. Yup, even if the zombie apocalypse occurs in 2015, it'll still be a great year...

It’s hard to study what an asteroid impact does real-time as you’d need to be looking at the right spot at the right time. So simulations are often the way to go. Here’s a fun idea captured on video — throwing dr...

Dr. Cameron Smith of Portland State University delivers the third lecture of the 2014/15 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Smith's lecture explores the biological and cultural chall...

NASA is ignoring Arthur C Clarke's warning to avoid exploring Juipter's moon, Europa. In 2010: Odyssey Two, a 1982 the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, the Earth mission returns to the Jupiter system to explore...

Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti took this photograph of the Alps from the International Space Station, and posted it on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014....