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Physicists have created a so-called magnetic wormhole that transports a magnetic field from one point to the other without being detected.

NanoRacks, a Houston-based company that helps commercial companies make use of the space station, has signed an agreement with the Beijing Institute of Technology to fly Chinese DNA research to the orbiting outpost next ...

The new calendar features a dozen of the best pictures captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which blasted off on Aug. 23, 2003, and continues to observe the heavens today.

Houston, we have a pop band. The hit U.K. boy band One Direction unveiled its latest music video "Drag Me Down" and it has a decisively out-of-this-world vibe thanks to NASA.

NASA has selected Aerie Aerospace LLC of Huntsville, Alabama to provide engineering technicians and trades support services at the Marshall Space Flight Center, also in Huntsville, and Michoud Assembly Facility in New Or...

The spacesuits worn by Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and by Alan Shepard, the first American in space, will be "conserved, digitized and displayed" thanks to the almost 9,500 people who backed the Sm...

The hunt for these mysterious “missing-matter” substances has now taken a leap forward, thanks to two new lab experiments --

The hunt for these mysterious “missing-matter” substances has now taken a leap forward thanks to two new lab experiments --

Using a Cessna 172 dropped from a height of 100 feet, NASA's Search and Rescue Mission Office will simulate a severe but survivable plane accident Wednesday, Aug. 26 to test emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). NASA Te...

In a series of high-profile television interviews, astronaut Scott Kelly told reporters about his daily life in space, and his favorite TV shows to watch in orbit.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a green propulsion system that will be tested on a NASA mission in 2016. The post Aerojet Ro...

Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 more commonly known as WR 124 and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it....

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured an image of Hurricane Danny moving through the Central Atlantic Ocean....

Working from publicly released image data, software engineer Björn Jónsson created this dramatic scene depicting the culmination of Pluto New Horizon's epic adventure. Atmospheric glow around the night side of Pluto wa...

Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. aims to launch a special "time capsule" can of its Pocari Sweat sports drink to the moon next year. The can will be delivered to the lunar surface aboard Astrobotic Technology's Grif...

Dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called "chameleons," Holger Müller and his team at UC Berkeley plan to flush them out. The results of an experiment reported in this week's issue ...

Tokyo-based Suntory Global Innovation Center, which has a division called Suntory Whiskey, launched a set of alcoholic beverages toward the International Space Station on Wednesday (Aug. 19) aboard Japan's HTV-5 freighte...

Budget meddling by Congress could cripple Earth science programs --

Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support o...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Matt Damon talks about science, NASA and the collaboration with Andy Weir on upcoming movie The Martian during a visit to NASA's Mars Mission Control Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California....