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A longstanding mystery about the tiny stars that let loose powerful explosions known as Type Ia supernovae might finally be solved.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. An H-2 rocket successfully launched a Japanese cargo spacecraft carrying more than four tons of supplies and equipment for th...

Comet impact on Earth are synonymous with great extinctions, but now research presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Prague shows that early comet impact would have become a driving force to cause substa...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The space shuttle Endeavour is retired and on display at the California Science Center, but it's still contributing to the space program.

The Smithsonian's first shot at online crowdfunding ended Wednesday after raising a hefty $719,779 to restore the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon.

The awesome new trailer for "The Martian" is full of thrilling and stressful moments, and raises important questions about the value of human life in space exploration.

After spending 199 days on the International Space Station, a European astronaut is readying for her next big mission: joining an independent "Star Trek" production.

ESA's Rosetta probe is keeping a sharp eye on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun and peak activity time).

The loose speckling of stars in this new ESO image is the open star cluster IC 4651, located within the Milky Way, in the constellation of Ara (The Altar), about 3000 light-years away....

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise -- it appears to be radiating gamma rays, according to an analysis by physicists at Carnegie Mellon, Brown, and Cambridge universities....

NASA's Cassini spacecraft paid a visit to Saturn's moon Dione this week, one final time. Cassini passed just 474 kilometers (295 miles) above the surface of the icy moon on Monday, August 17th at 2:33 PM EDT/18:33 UT. Th...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic, construction of NASA's next-generation hurricane-observing satellite mission now is underway in Texas.

To prepare for the film the actress worked with NASA to learn about the realistic aspects of space exploration. Chastain and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson explain.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Gas-giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn form quickly, thanks to the fast accretion of pebble-size building blocks, new research suggests.

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Queen's University in Canada have unraveled the mystery of how Jupiter and Saturn likely formed. This discovery, which changes our view of how all planets might have...

Wildfire smoke can be seen blanketing northern California and Washington state in new images taken by NASA satellites.

Boeing's patent to build a transformer-like drone that is 'adaptable for both flight and water travel' has been approved.

The second full trailer for 20th Century Fox’s upcoming film The Martian dropped this morning and it looks like a whole red-planetful of awesome space adventure! Directed by Ridley Scott and based on the runaway hit no...

A summer challenge invites kids ages 2 to 8 to develop "out-of-this-world" creations -- with a grand-prize trip to a SpaceX rocket launch.

New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system....