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The Perseid meteor shower is the most widely observed and dependable annual meteor display of the year, and its peak this week has all the earmarks of being an excellent example of celestial fireworks, weather permitting...

Ten years after launch, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed the Red Planet's diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week than all six other missions currently active there. And its...

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Thanks to a new moon, this week's Perseid meteor shower is expected to be one of the best in years, and NASA Television will bring viewers a front row seat....

Saturn's unusual appearance in this picture is a result of the planet being imaged via an infrared filter....

NASA has selected J. P. Donovan Construction, Inc., of Rockledge, Florida to begin work at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the ground structures that will launch NASA's next generation rocket and spacecra...

More than 6,000 'Star Trek' fans are now part of a giant online tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who played the Vulcan alien Spock on the famed series.

The Perseids are the most widely observed and dependable annual meteor display of the year --

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A good mystery is often where you find it. Photographer Meagan Abell recently made a discovery during a thrift store expedition that not only set the internet abuzz, but also contains an interesting astronomical dimensio...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. One of the two main science instruments on NASA's $915 million Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft remains out of ...

The latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal diverse features on Pluto's surface and an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen gas. However, Pluto's small mass allows hundreds of tons of atmospheric nitrogen to e...

Royal Observatory Belgium: Like every year, Earth will pass mid August through the trajectory of the dust cloud left behind comet Swift-Tuttle very likely giving us a night sky filled with bright falling stars. The moon ...

'For the Love of Spock,' a documentary commemorating the life of Leonard Nimoy and his famous 'Star Trek' character, Spock, will likely require more funding after exceeding its Kickstarter goal, the film's director says.

When the sun hurls a billion tons of high-energy particles and magnetic fields into space at speeds of more than a million miles per hour and the "space weather" conditions are right, the resulting geomagnetic storm at E...

NASA Television will broadcast live coverage Thursday, Aug. 13 of the penultimate hot fire test of an RS-25 engine. This is one of four engines that will power the core stage of NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS), and ...

The latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal diverse features on Pluto's surface and an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen gas. However, Pluto's small mass allows hundreds of tons of atmospheric nitrogen to e...

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy. This oxymoronic object could prov...

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The SpaceVR project wants to give people a taste of life in space through virtual reality.

Think your airline's bag fees are burdensome? Try flying after swallowing part of your luggage and strapping the rest to your legs. That's how bees do it. And depending on how a bumblebee loads herself up with nectar and...