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NASA's Mojave Volatiles Prospector (MVP) is placing a suite of instruments to detect water on the Earthly desert surface. This testbed will fine tune designs for future probes to Mars, the Moon and other solar system bod...

An American astronaut and two cosmonauts are set to fly up to the International Space Station Friday (March 27), and two of those crewmembers won't be back on Earth for about a year on a mission that aims to help open th...

One of humanity's oldest technologies, the humble fishing net, may yet find a new role in space: bringing down dead satellites....

In a few months, Pluto's gonna get a lot less fuzzy. Right now, the distant world is a scant three pixels across in the camera of the New Horizons space probe. But it's fast approaching; New Horizons recently crossed the...

Cosmic detectives are investigating a case of mistaken stellar identity: CK Vulpeculae, an exploding star that was once known as the oldest recorded nova -- a nuclear explosion in space -- was more likely caused by the m...

A Carnegie-based search of nearby galaxies for their oldest stars has uncovered two stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy that were born shortly after the galaxy formed, approximately 13 billion years ago....

Jupiter may have swept through the early solar system like a wrecking ball, destroying a first generation of inner planets before retreating into its current orbit, according to a new study published March 23 in Proceedi...

Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths--planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune....

European Astronomers witnessed what they thought was a Nova in the constellation of Vulpecula in 1670.

NASA's Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will kick off the first yearlong International Space Station mission when they launch to the orbiting outpost on March 27, 2015.

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars,” Carl Sagan famously said in his 1980 series Cosmos. “We are mad...

Nitrogen was available on ancient Mars in a form that microbes could have used to build key biomolecules, and atmospheric carbon monoxide has been a feasible energy source for life throughout the Red Planet's history, tw...

Jupiter may have acted like a giant wrecking ball in the newborn solar system, roaming in to destroy an early generation of inner planets before retreating to its current orbit, researchers say.

Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths--planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. If so, those planets are long gone-...

At the turn of the 20th Century, Einstein’s theory of relativity stunned the physics world, but the experimental evidence needed to be found. And so, in 1919, another respected astronomer, Arthur Eddington, observed th...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Just about two hours into Gemini 3, NASA's first two-man spaceflight 50 years ago, John Young reached into his spacesuit's pocket and pulled out a surprise. "Where did that come from?" replied Gus Grissom, Gemini 3 comma...

What's one thing astronaut Scott Kelly can't do without when he moves into space this week for a year? A belt.

New observations made with APEX and other telescopes reveal that the star that European astronomers saw appear in the sky in 1670 was not a nova, but a much rarer, violent breed of stellar collision. It was spectacular e...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut about to embark on a one-year flight are similar in many ways: born in the 1960s, fathers of daughters, military backgrounds.

An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are moving into the International Space Station this week and staying for an entire year.