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Amazon has outlined its plans for its drone delivery service and for a larger drone communication system, enabling drones to be able to communicate with each other and with other aircraft in the area.

Hoping to capture lawmakers' imaginations and perhaps loosen their purse strings, NASA officials said Tuesday that the new scientific information gleaned from the New Horizons mission to Pluto was "revolutionizing" what ...

On July 9, 2015 the four spacecraft of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission began flying in a pyramid shape for the first time. The four-sided pyramid shape--called a tetrahedron--means that scientists' obse...

Ohio's U.S. Senate delegation ordered up an extensive report on the federal infrastructure required to produce both the nuclear batteries that power NASA missions to dark and distant corners of the solar system, and the ...

The coalescence of two black holes -- a very violent and exotic event -- is one of the most sought-after observations of modern astronomy. But, as these mergers emit no light of any kind, finding such elusive events has ...

Enhanced imagery of Saturn satellite Tethys show arcing streaks spanning hundreds of mile across the battered surface. These may be ice with organic impurities, outgassing from within the moon, or markers of fractures in...

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth -- is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen. They ...

The desert regions of Saturn's moon Titan may have once hosted water that left behind traces of dry material on the surface, like rings on a bathtub, new research suggests.

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen outside the solar system, an alien light show more powerful than any other aurora ever witnessed, perhaps 1 million times brighter Earth's northern lights.

Two weeks after New Horizons' Pluto flyby, NASA planetary science funding took center stage during a July 28 House Science Committee hearing. The post Icy Pluto Reignites Debate about NASA Planetary Funding appeared firs...

Got questions about artificial intelligence? Stephen Hawking has answers.

While acknowledging delays in interim milestones for its two commercial crew contracts, NASA officials said July 28 they still require the full funding requested for 2016 to avoid delays in the overall program. The post ...

Resembling what the skin on my arms looks like after giving my cat a bath, the surface of Saturn’s moon Tethys is seen above in an extended-color composite from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft showing strange long red stre...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The dark red pole on Pluto's largest moon Charon may be some of the dwarf planet's own siphoned-off atmosphere.

"We are witnessing a single recent accretion event where a medium-sized galaxy fell through the center of Messier 87, and as a consequence of the enormous gravitational tidal forces, its stars are now scattered over a re...

The coalescence of two black holes--a very violent and exotic event--is one of the most sought-after observations of modern astronomy. But, as these mergers emit no light of any kind, finding such elusive events has been...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Like graffiti sprayed by an unknown artist, unexplained arc-shaped, reddish streaks are visible on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys in new, enhanced-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft....

Two cosmonauts are getting ready for the first spacewalk from the International Space Station since March. Two NASA astronauts are also working to bring a U.S. spacesuit back to service....

The chemical element lithium has been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova....

The mysterious gunk on Jupiter’s moon may be sea salt --