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A new photo, which was taken Sunday by NASA's Aqua satellite, shows just how bad this fire season has gotten in the western United States. Dozens of active blazes are visible throughout California, Oregon, Washington and...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The hot core of nebula PN M2-9 is ablaze with ultraviolet radiation illuminating its 'butterfly wings.' Gaseous shells race outward at over 1 million kilometers per hour (621,371 mph) from the larger of 2 stars at this p...

Three new spectacular 3D images of a Mars chasm show gullies shaped by erosive forces on the Red Planet.

The Russian Federal Space Agency says the next manned trip to the International Space Station will be extended from the usual six hours to two days.

Hawking and two colleagues propose that information isn't destroyed at the heart of a black hole; it's stored at the black hole's boundary in holographic form.

A new NASA model is showing just how fast sea levels are rising around the world as a result of climate change.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The U.S. Department of Energy will start producing new plutonium-238 for space missions around 2019, but production will ramp...

Japan's Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) is seen during final approach towards the International Space Station....

The test occurred on Aug. 26th, 2015 at NASA's Langley Research Center. They were testing the emergency locator transmitter aboard the 1974 Cessna 172.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The full moon this Saturday (Aug. 29) will look especially big in the sky, because the moon will be exceptionally close to Earth.

The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch to the orbital outpost Wednesday, Sept. 2.

It seems as if the planets are fleeing the evening sky, just as the Fall school star party season is getting underway. Venus and Mars have entered the morning sky, and Jupiter reaches solar conjunction this week. Even gl...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to work in the deep end of spacewalk training through the Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) activity.

The shimmering colours visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula's shells and its knots of expanding gas in strik...

The shimmering colours visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula....

Astronomers have found evidence for a faded electron cloud "coming back to life," much like the mythical phoenix, after two galaxy clusters collided....

Global ocean levels have risen about 6 cm (2.3 in) over the past two decades, matching models consistent with human-induced climate change. NASA monitors sea heights and other parameters with the Jason satellite series.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: