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Andreas Mogensen @Astro_Andreas Loved your creative #iriss stories kids. My @LEGO_Education friends will return to Earth and have a story to tell too...

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s incongruous chemical composition and shape raise questions about the origin of our solar system --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An image released last fall sparked debate over whether or not giant planets might form so close to one another. New evidence suggests they can, making this the first image of planetary birth.

An "over-the-top" complex mix of craters, ice flows, mountains, valleys and apparent dunes coexist in the latest images dispatched from the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.

U.S. Air Force Space Command plans to announce Sept. 14 that a new space operations center for the Pentagon and intelligence community will begin testing and experiments Oct. 1 at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, ac...

A new antenna design could permit Mars rovers to contact Earth directly, rather than through a spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, and increase total communication time.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award United Launch Alliance a contract to build a Delta 4 rocket for launch in October 2017 as part of the service's 2013 block buy contract with the company. SpaceNews.com

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: New Horizons staff Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator; Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager; and Emily Lakdawalla from The Planetary Society Guests: Brian Koberlein (@br...

As NASA continues to advocate for full funding of its commercial crew program in 2016, the agency is seeking flexibility for the program in an upcoming short-term spending bill to avoid the risk of further delays. SpaceN...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden discusses some of the key issues facing the space agency, from development of commercial crew systems to planning for human missions to Mars, in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Sp...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden discusses some of the key issues facing the space agency, from development of commercial crew systems to planning for human missions to Mars, in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Sp...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

International Launch Services on Sept. 11 said President Phil Slack is leaving the company after three years in his job and is being replaced by Kirk Pysher, who has been ILS's mission assurance vice president. SpaceNews...

The next 18 months are seen as crucial as the U.S. Air Force is expected to undertake an analysis of alternatives for wideband satellite capacity. SpaceNews.com

It's understandable that the TSA would want to have a master key for all of its approved locks. The problems start when the designs for said master key leaks online...

NASA is partnering with Harmonic, a worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, to launch NASA TV UHD, the first ever non-commercial consumer ultra-high definition (UHD) channel in North America. The partnership i...

The storm that's the catalyst to the story wreaks havoc in this clip form the upcoming movie, premiering in October 2015.

There's a new way to look like an astronaut -- or at least a fictional future crew member of a Mars-bound mission -- thanks to a joint marketing promotion between the upcoming film "The Martian" and the American sports c...

After three years of near-obsessive focus on launch vehicles leading to the next-generation Ariane 6 rocket, France turns its attention to satellites. SpaceNews.com

The "Rich Purnell Maneuver" is explained to the NASA administrator, played by Jeff Daniels, in this clip from the upcoming movie, premiering in October 2015.

A new NASA study has implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. Certain tidally stressed moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, harbor oceans of liquid water beneath thei...