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Phase II awards have now been given by NASA to Amprius Inc. and the University of Maryland, whose proposals aim to develop next-generation energy storage technologies. These battery developments are crucial to deep space...

On Aug. 13, NASA conducted a test firing of the RS-25 rocket engine at Stennis Space Center. The 535 second test was the sixth in the current series of seven developmental tests of the former space shuttle main engine......

Between April and June 2015, NASA's Explorations Systems Development programs continued to make progress developing and building the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and the ground systems needed to launch th...

Astronomers have spied a new alien world that they believe strikingly resembles a young Jupiter. Using a new instrument, the Gemini Planet Imager, they spotted 51 Eridani b, still warm and luminous from its formation. Bu...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Russia will undock its ISS Progress 58 spacecraft Friday morning for a fiery atmospheric entry over the Pacific Ocean. Japan will launch its fifth "Kounotori" HTV cargo ship (HTV-5) Sunday morning from the Tanegashima Sp...

Experiments in the chamber could answer these five questions --

Last week's Crash Course Astronomy was particularly fun for me, because I love the topic of exoplanets. It's one of my favorite new fields of astronomy. But not my only favorite. Another is brown dwarfs, objects between ...

From the magnificent Milky Way to a tribute to Leonard Nimoy, don't miss these stunning space images.

This image wastaken by Mars Colour Camera over Ophir Chasma, a canyon in the Coprates quadrangle of Mars at 4 south latitude and 72.5 west longitude....

It's not too late to catch a meteor.