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Potentially destructive high-energy electrons streak into Earth's atmosphere from space, not as Shakespeare's "gentle rain from heaven," but at velocities approaching the speed of light.

Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and Japan have arrived at the International Space Station to continue important research that advances NASA's journey to Mars while making discoveries that can be...

M-dwarfs, which are cooler than our sun, have habitable zones closer to the stars. As such, any habitable planets orbiting these stars would transit frequently, making the chances of discovery better.

NASA has selected American Paragon Protective Services, LLC, of Austin, Texas to receive a contract to support the Protective Services Office Support Services at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Califo...

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Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will crash test a small plane Wednesday, July 29, to test the performance of five emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) installed onboard.

Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will crash test a small plane Wednesday, July 29, to test the performance of five emergency locater transmitters (ELTs) installed onboard.

Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found what may be the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as the Earth orbits the Sun, NASA said Thursday.

The planet, Kepler 452 b, is likely rocky and orbits in its star’s habitable zone where liquid water can exist --

In space, far above Earth's turbulent atmosphere, you might think the one thing you don't have to worry about is weather. But you would be wrong. Just ask the people charged with the safety of the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has spotted more than 500 new potential alien planets, including an Earth-like planet amid a dozen that may be capable of supporting life.

The Aerospace Corp. has been designing and building miniature satellites for nearly two decades. Customer interest began to surge in 2012, however, as people recognized that microelectronics could enable extremely small ...

Stephen Gorevan, chairman of Honeybee Robotics, a Brooklyn-based company best known for the work it's done to equip NASA's Mars rovers with robotic life-detection components, talks about aerospace technology and the futu...

One of the biggest goals in the search for exoplanets--alien worlds--is finding an Earth-size planet orbiting its star in the "habitable zone," where liquid water might exist on its surface. In other words, finding anoth...

NASA scientists announced the discovery of an Earth-like world, Kepler-452b, on July 23, 2015. Here's a look at that closest Earth twin in pictures.

Scientists say NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered Earth’s “older, bigger first cousin” - a planet that’s about 60 percent bigger than our own, circling a sunlike star in an orbit that could sustain li...

What Does Mia Wallace Look Like? Well, she has bangs. And that's all Buzz Aldrin and John Travolta had to go on when a woman at a charity auction asked the two to cut her hair like Uma Thurman's character Mia Wallace fro...

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Kepler-452b size is important because it receives 10 percent more energy from its Sun than we do from ours. That mass protects it from experiencing "runaway greenhouse effect and the loss of its water inventory," accordi...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA's Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates....

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