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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has, to date, offered scientists more than 4,000 candidate planets -- the 1,000th of which was recently verified.

When it comes to science and space exploration, you have to get accustomed to a mix of success and failure. If you're wise you learn from failure and turn adversity around into a future success. Such is the case for the ...

Back in 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the The Venus Climate Orbiter “Akatsuki” with the intention of learning more about the planet’s weather and surface conditions. Unfortunately,...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Air Force said Jan. 6 it will review the certification criteria for new entrants in the national security launch market as it acknowledged that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket had yet to clear the proce...

Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has succeeded John Grotzinger as Curiosity project scientist, agency officials announced Monday (Jan. 5).

A European lander currently hibernating on a comet, did not successfully sample the icy body using a drill after the probe made its historic comet landing in November.

NASA Breaking News: NASA will hold two briefings Thursday, Jan. 15 at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, to preview the upcoming Expedition 43 mission aboard the International Space Station and the launch of t...

NASA has contributed two Earth science instruments for NOAA's space weather observing satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR, set to launch in January 2015. One of the instruments called EPIC or Ea...

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is known for its surprising behavior, erupting twice in the 19th century for reasons scientists still don't understand. A long...

In the constellation of Carina, lies the most luminous and mysterious star system within 10,000 light-years. The two massive stars, better known as Eta Carinae, erupted twice in the 19th Century for reasons astronomers s...

Sometimes when you stare at something long enough, you begin to see things. This is not the case with optical sensors and telescopes. Sure, there is noise from electronics, but it’s random and traceable. Stargazing wit...

Skywatchers have a chance to spot the bright planet Jupiter and the moon sparkling brightly in the sky tonight, weather permitting, but only if you know when and where to look.

7500 light-years away, Eta Carinae's pair of 'superstars' (30 and 90 solar masses) outshine our Sun more than 6 million times over, whipping up a frenzy of stellar winds.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Scientists have found what appear to be two supermassive black holes in the final stages of a merger, a rare event never seen before.

Seed was selected by popular vote from an initial 35 university proposals. The aim of the project is to germinate the first seed on Mars and to prove the concept that it is possible to germinate and grow plants on Mars. ...

Still looking for the perfect calendar for this year? Believe it or not, 2015 is now 1.6% over, so don’t spend another day without your new Year In Space Calendar! Published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, t...

Remember at the end of “Star Trek: First Contact” when Lily looks up to see the Enterprise enter the temporal vortex with a flash of light? Astrophotographer Randy Halverson captured a view very similar to that scene...

A careful study of images taken by the NASA rover Curiosity has revealed intriguing similarities between ancient sedimentary rocks on Mars and structures shaped by microbes on Earth. The findings suggest, but do not prov...

The GAO rejected a protest filed by Sierra Nevada Corp. of commercial crew development contracts NASA awarded in September to two other companies.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing robots to explore volcanoes.

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

SpaceX has passed NASA's "certification baseline review," which required the California-based company to outline exactly how it plans to ferry crews to and from the orbiting lab using Dragon and its Falcon 9 rocket.