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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dubbed "The Behemoth" bleeding from a planet orbiting a nearby star. The enormous, comet-like feature is about 50 times the siz...

Microsoft's new augmented reality technology, HoloLens, is useful for much more than playing video games. The company teamed up with NASA to bring the technology aboard the International Space Station to aid astronauts.

Ever since the invention of the telescope four hundred years ago, astronomers have been fascinated by the gas giant of Jupiter. Between it's constant, swirling clouds, its many, many moons, and its Giant Red Spot, there ...

A previously unreleased company video shows how challenging landing a Falcon 9 on a robot barge at sea can be. Many autonomous systems must act in concert and all must get their parts perfect.

"Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or...

SpaceX posted another video of its April 14 Falcon 9 landing attempt. It shows SpaceX's second attempt to land the rocket's first stage on its drone ship, "Just Read the Instructions." The post VIDEO | SpaceX Posts Track...

Virgin Galactic's deal for 39 launches of OneWeb satellites is the company's first contract for its LauncherOne system, its chief executive said June 25. The post OneWeb Contract A Milestone For Virgin Galactic's Smallsa...

New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss offers a potential solution to a longstanding problem in the prevailing theory of how rocky planets formed in our own Solar System, as well as in others. The snag he's untangling: how d...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 4:16 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2015. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of...

A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that causes collisions among t...

Contamination from organic molecules can harm delicate instruments and engineers are taking special care at NASA to prevent that from affecting the James Webb Space Telescope (and all satellites and instruments). Recentl...

As the New Horizons spacecraft nears Pluto, more details are coming into view, and we are beginning to see surface features on the tiny world. And that means we'll see things that are ... odd. Perhaps "as yet unexplained...

Media and social media followers are invited to watch as NASA tests an RS-25 engine like those that will power the rocket that launches astronauts on missions to an asteroid and to Mars. The test will take place Thursday...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's plan to launch an experimental weather cubesat in 2016 is in doubt because the agency staked funding for the effort to a program that fared poorly in recent budget bi...

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, painted the sky with brilliant ribbons of color this week, and the colorful displays could continue, following another solar explosion spotted by NASA.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A new video infographic shows off some of the vessels that have borne the name "Enterprise" over the years, from an 18th-century sailing ship to multiple iterations of the famous spacecraft in the fictional "Star Trek" u...

NASA and Microsoft are teaming up to develop Sidekick, a new project using commercial technology to empower astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The developer of the SpyMeSat mobile app that allows users to custom order satellite imagery from their phones is looking to contract with another satellite operator this fall. The post SpyMeSat App Developer Looking To ...

The good folks at the World at Night--dedicated to preserving the night sky and raising awareness about light pollution--have announced the winners of the sixth annual International Earth and Sky Photo Contest, and as us...