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Matter and antimatter appear to be perfect mirror images of each other, scientists have discovered with unprecedented levels of precision, foiling hope of solving the mystery as to why there is far matter than antimatter...

Scientists at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, are developing a "gecko gripper" system that could help robots inspect and repair the International Space Station.

Daily sunspot counts going back 400 years have been revisited by scientists who say the numbers aren't quite right, suggesting solar activity has not varied as wildly as previously thought.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17--the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long mission.

A planet 100 light-years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists....

It's been a wild 2015 for United States weather, and more changes are afoot when El Niño takes hold in the Pacific, NASA said.

All of the images at the My Planet from Space exhibit, showing in New York until Sept. 9, were taken by satellites to help researchers diagnose the state of the planet. The exhibit's curator, Viviana Panaccia, wants its ...

A new exhibit of satellite photography is on display in the U.N. Headquarters Visitors' Lobby in New York City from July 9 to September 9.

NASA has tested a rocket engine that is aimed at eventually powering a manned mission to Mars. The test was the sixth of seven tests for the engine.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has pushed the launch of its H-II Transport Vehicle (HTV)-5 to the International Space Station to 8:35 a.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 17. NASA Television will carry live coverage o...

SyFy Channel will launch TV adaptations of two epic science fiction books in December with two more in the works. The shows are 'Childhood's End' based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The Expanse,' 'Gateway' and 'Hyperi...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency hopes to draft a preliminary design for a new kill vehicle, a blueprint that cobbles together...

If you see a magnetar, don't pick it up.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Scientists have been fascinated by a series of unusual exploding stars-outcasts beyond the typical cozy confines of their galaxies....

NASA has selected eight university-led proposals to study innovative, early stage technologies that will address high-priority needs of America's space program.

Rogue supernovas that explode all alone in deep space present an astronomical mystery. Where did they come from? How did they get there? The likely answer: a binary black hole slingshot, according to a new study by Ryan ...

The recently commissioned Gemini Planet Imager has made its first exoplanet discovery: what may be the lowest-mass exoplanet ever directly imaged with a space telescope instrument. Based on available data, the researcher...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A spectacular galaxy collision has been discovered lurking behind the Milky Way. The closest such system ever found, the discovery was announced today by a team of astronomers led by Prof. Quentin Parker at the Universit...

Campaigns to name exoplanets seem like Shakespearean farce --

Our week through the lens: 10-14 August 2015