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A pressure chamber used to simulate harsh environments, such as what exists on Venus, Saturn's moon Titan and the giant planets, is open for business at NASA's Glenn Research Center.

A military communications satellite successfully launched into orbit at 6:18 a.m. EDT (1018GMT) today (Sept. 2), building on a cutting edge communications network already in operation.

Catching a ride from one solar system body to another isn't easy. You have to figure out how to land your spacecraft safely and then get it on its way to the next destination. The landing part is especially tricky for as...

Physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, talks about his article "What Einstein Got Wrong," in Scientific American’s... --

This image was taken by the JMA Himawari satellite at 1840Z on September 2, 2015....

Astronomers have long struggled with how young planets form around pairs of stars without destroying themselves, but new research suggests it can be done with the perfect setup: a massive, slightly elongated disk of debr...

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NASA is teaming up with California-based company Arx Pax, which has developed a real-life hoverboard using a technology called Magnetic Field Architecture. The goas is to find a way to manipulate tiny satellites called c...

Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite's two science instruments, can no longer return data....

Skywatchers across Central Florida got an unusual view early Wednesday morning in conjunction with the Atlas V launch of the MUOS-4 satellite. “That wasn’t thunder this AM, Florida: An absolutely stunning MUOS launch...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will participate in the grand opening of The Boeing Company's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 4. The event will a...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. The long-delayed first flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle is now scheduled for April or May of 2016, a company of...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Today's (Sept. 2) stunningly successful launch of the US Navy's revolutionary MUOS-4 tactical communications satellite atop a mighty Atlas V rocket produced an unexpectedly exotic...

Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today.

Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite's two science instruments, can no longer return data. However, the mission continues to produce hi...

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is exploring the upper atmosphere and using the light of stars to determine its composition. The mission hopes to better understand where the water went on th...

An Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer cooling pump failures raises questions about its longevity --

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Astrophotographer Göran Strand was out on the night of Aug. 26 in Östersund, Sweden, when the sky erupted in auroral flames! He caught the whole thing in both time-lapse and real-time video, and it's stunning. Wow! Aur...

The first Dane in space accompanied by 26 custom-made figurines from Danish toymaker Lego blasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday as part of a three-man team on an unusually long two-day mission to the International Spa...

This view combines information from two instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map color-coded composition over the shape of the ground in a small portion of the Nili Fossae plains region of Mars' northern ...

Deeply immersed in this huge stellar nursery are three clusters of hot young stars -- only a few million years old -- which glow brightly in ultraviolet light....