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Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on March 6, 2015.

Think of it as the ultimate hitchhiking opportunity: ESA is offering CubeSats a ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space.

Astronomers have discovered the largest and brightest black hole ever seen -- an ancient monster with a mass about 12 billion times that of the sun -- that dates back to when the universe was less than 1 billion years ol...

Did life come to Earth from the shattered rocks of a distant star?

Final preparations are underway for the launch of NASA's quartet of Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, which constitute the first space mission dedicated to the study of magnetic reconnection. This fundamental p...

Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers) from Cere...

A newly discovered object in the galaxy NGC 2276 may prove to be an important black hole that helps fill in the evolutionary story of these exotic objects, as described in our latest press release. The main image in this...

NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite can measure global precipitation (rain and snow) every 30 minutes. The data has been transformed into high resolution imagery that tracks the movement of precipitat...

Tyson will receive the Academy's most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, in recognition of his extensive efforts to get the public excited about science.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: From Saharan dust storms to icy clouds to smoke on the opposite side of the continent, the first image from NASA's newest cloud- and aerosol-measuring instrument provides a profile of ...

Super-massive object found in the early universe tests theories of cosmic evolution --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: When NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission proposed to gather worldwide rain and snow data every three hours, they turned to the international community for help.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Global Precipitation Mission's Core Observatory measured in three dimensions precipitation from two February storms in the U.S.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A new study of Earth's ionosphere, a part of the upper atmosphere, could have applications for better GPS communications.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Like a cowboy at a rodeo, NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), has triumphantly raised its "arm" and unfurled a huge golden...

Chris Quilty, who tracks satellite companies for investment banker Raymond James, speaks with SpaceNews Editor Warren Ferster about the recent flood of Silicon Valley investment in audacious commercial space projects. Th...

An interview with Frank Drake, who conducted the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960 and came up with a famous equation that estimates the possible number of alien civilizations.

Going to Mars without setting up a colony -- round-trip manned missions, in other words -- would not be enough for the U.S. to reclaim its leadership in space, nor would setting up human outposts on the moon, Aldrin said...

NASA Breaking News: Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space - with a fifth newly in orbit - after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than a decade.

NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite SMAP, has triumphantly raised its "arm" and unfurled a huge golden antenna that it will soon spin up to rope the best soil moisture maps ever obtained from space....

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the center of gal...

The MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep Universe....