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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its robotic arm Wednesday, March 11, to sieve and deliver a rock-powder sample to an onboard instrument.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The world celebrates the number pi on Pi Day: March 14, 2015 (3/14/15). Here's how pi is used in science and engineering.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that hydrothermal vents have been found on Saturn's moon Enceladus, we get another watery alien world announcement: Indirect evidence has been found for a salty ocean under the surfac...

The last Apollo mission launched by NASA was Apollo 17, in 1972 -- but an art exhibit called "Apollo XVIII" is launching from Times Square all this month.

New Horizons, which will zoom through the Pluto system on July 14, fired its engines for 93 seconds on Tuesday (March 10), when it was about 3 billion miles from Earth -- the most distant engine burn ever, mission offici...

Japanese scientists have succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, in a key step that could one day make solar power generation in space a possibility, an official said Thursday.

Three International Space Station crewmembers -- including one NASA astronaut -- are on their way back to Earth today (March 11) after a nearly six-month stint aboard the orbiting outpost.

Titan is probably the least inhospitable place in the outer solar system, but remember to bring oxygen and warm clothing.

The first human-made spacecraft to soft-land on the surface of a comet might be waking up soon.

Members of the Senate Commerce space subcommittee used a March 12 hearing on the NASA budget to debate with each other, and the head of the agency, about what the agency's priorities should be. The post Senators, Bolden ...

The launch of NASA's Magnetospheric Multi-Scale mission atop an Atlas V rocket tonight (March 12) may generate a glowing cloud visible from large stretches of North America.

NASA says the robotic arm on the Curiosity rover is moving again after a short circuit temporarily halted its work on Mars.

oday (March 12) at 10:44 p.m. EDT (0244 GMT March 13), an Atlas V rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral. Photographers looking to get the perfect shot of the rocket taking off have built MacGyver-style devices to prot...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, has a vast underground ocean of salty water, NASA scientists announced Thursday (March 12). The ocean on Ganymede was discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Yutu rover found evidence of at least nine distinct rock layers deep beneath its wheels, indicating that the area has been surprisingly geologically active over the past 3.3 billion years.

After the latest from BICEP2 and Planck, does cosmic inflation still hold up?

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface. ...

NASA is sending four identical spacecraft on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun's magnetic fields.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface.

The first eclipse of 2015 is coming right up on Friday, March 20th, and may provide a unique challenge for solar energy production across Europe. Sure, we've been skeptical about many of the websites touting a ‘blackou...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface.

NASA returns to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival March 13-18, in Austin, Texas to share with festival attendees how technology drives exploration, how we are exploring Earth, the solar system and beyond...