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The radio frequency band that many NASA missions use to communicate with spacecraft--S-band--is getting a bit crowded and noisy, and likely to get more jammed as science missions demand higher and higher data rates.

The hunt for Earth-like planets around distant stars could soon become a lot easier thanks to a technique developed by researchers in Germany.

Bantam spacecraft should survive for about 15 minutes in Jupiter's thick air before bursting into flame, according to researchers developing a concept mission called SMARA (SMAll Reconnaissance of Atmospheres).

When we look up at the night sky outside of the bright city, we can see a dazzling array of stars and galaxies. It is more difficult to see the clouds of gas within galaxies, however, but gas is required to form new star...

So far, every spacesuit humans have utilized has been designed with a specific mission and purpose in mind. As of yet, there's been no universal or "perfect" spacesuit that would fit every need. For example, the US ACES ...

In a Mars environment, it appears even brewing may be possible.

The 149th crew to "explore" the Red Planet care of the Mars Desert Research Station has made some interesting discoveries -- not all what you would expect.

A meteor moving at 45,000 mph lit up the sky over western Pennsylvania.

"We'll never find any direct evidence of land scum one cell thick, but this might be giving us indirect evidence that the land was inhabited," said Roger Buick, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sci...

Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit that recently selected finalists for one-way human missions to Mars in the mid-2020s, has quietly suspended work on a pair of robotic missions, putting into question plans to launch those sp...

Take a speed of light trip across the solar system starting at the Sun We’ve heard it over and over. There’s nothing faster than the speed of light. Einstein set the speed limit at 186,000 miles per second (299,792 k...

Explosions on the surface of a dying star may help solve the mystery of the presence of lithium in the galaxy.

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, who emerged in 2014 as a central figure in the budding commercial weather satellite business, is poised to exert more influence in 2015. The post Championing a Climate Change for Commercial Weather ...

A physicist whose career was highlighted by research that helped capture moving images of the first moon walk has died. Ernest Sternglass was 91.

A robotic submarine could explore the methane seas on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. See how space technology and NASA are working to make this a reality.

Did you miss out on seeing the space thriller "Interstellar" in IMAX last year? Do you just want to see it in all its glory again? Space fans in select will get the chance to check out Christopher Nolan's space explorati...

On Oct. 8, 2013, an explosion on the sun's surface sent a supersonic blast wave of solar wind out into space. This shockwave tore past Mercury and Venus, blitzing by the moon before streaming toward Earth. The shockwave ...

The online observatory Slooh will broadcast real-time views of the new moon on Thursday, marking the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

Every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center, and the heftier the galaxy, the bigger its black hole. But why are the two related? After all, the black hole is millions of times smaller and less massive than its ho...

Scientists have discovered that the mineral jarosite breaks down organic compounds when it is flash-heated, with implications for Mars research.

A huge fireball was captured by NASA All-Sky camera at the Allegheny Observatory near Pittsburgh in the early morning hours of February 17th, 2015.

A team of astronomers from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan observed Nova Delphini 2013 which occurred on August 14, 2013. Using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) to observe this...