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An RS-25 - same design as those on Space Shuttle - was hot-fired for 500 seconds on June 11th, 2015. Four such engines will power the core booster of NASA's forthcoming Space Launch System.

NASA will land in Mars, Pennsylvania Friday, June 19 to celebrate Mars' New Year with Red Planet enthusiasts of the Keystone State for three days of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) activiti...

Europe's robot lab Philae has made followup contact with Earth more than a day after sending home its first message in nearly seven months since landing on a comet, its ground operators said Monday.

For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious "hotspots" on Saturn's poles. In 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft beamed back close-up images of these hotspots, revealing them to be immense cyclones, each as wide a...

The two large craters on Tethys, near the line where day fades to night, almost resemble two giant eyes observing Saturn.

Tests of the main-stage engine for NASA's planned Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket continued at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi June 11 as the agency fired up an RS-25 engine for the third time this ye...

Earth to Mars: Happy New Year!

Electrons from the surface of a comet, not photons from the sun, are responsible for the breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules, according to new data from the Rosetta mission.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The high seas of Mars may never have existed, according to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars and suggests that a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water draina...

What began as a chat between husband and wife has evolved into an intriguing scientific discovery....

The Vulcan 1 rocket engine, manufactured on a 3D printer, was successfully test-fired on June 13. What could this mean for the future of space travel?

This article is a guest post by Anna Ho, who is currently doing research on stars in the Milky Way through a one-year Fulbright Scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany. In the ...

Two tiny cubesats, the first NASA plans to send to another planet, will keep watch on the agency's InSight mission as it descends to the Martian surface.

When we finally make the jump to fully colonizing the Solar System, we’re going to want to use asteroids as stepping stones. We can use them as way stations, research facilities, even as spacecraft to further explore t...

For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious "hotspots" on Saturn's poles. In 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft beamed back close-up images of these hotspots, revealing them to be immense cyclones, each as wide a...

While many visionaries now focus upon Mars as the next destination for humankind to visit, some have an even longer view. In the book, “Interplanetary Outpost: The Human and Technological Challenges of Exploring the Ou...

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft is nearing its uncontrolled re-entry, diving into the atmosphere in a destructive plunge next week.TRMM was a joint mission of NASA and the Japan Aerospace Explor...

The high seas of Mars may never have existed, according to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars and suggests that a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water draina...

The high seas of Mars may never have existed, according to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars and suggests that a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water draina...

Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration News:

Replay of the media briefing with ESA DG Jean-Jacques Dordain and his successor Johann-Dietrich Woerner at the Paris airshow on 15 June