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Video Caption: NASA/JAXA’s GPM satellite measured record rainfall that fell over the Carolinas from September 26 to October 5, 2015 from a plume of moisture from Hurricane Joaquin when it was located over the Bahamas a...

Powerful telescopes are coming soon. Where exactly shall we point them?

NASA selected 55 student teams from across the nation to participate in the 2015-2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, to be held April 13-17 near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama....

Michael Mayor and grad student Didier Queloz were the first astronomers to identify an alien world as it circled a sunlike star --

In "The Martian," Mark Watney deals with a lot of dangerous situations -- food and communications being a couple of them. But what if his camp got hit by a solar storm? How could he protect himself?

Earlier this month, the ExoMars launch date was pushed back by a couple of months. Instead of launching in January 2016, the European mission will launch the following March -- but still get to Mars at nearly the same ti...

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with numerous universities and government laboratories studying the effects of dusty plasmas--charged dust particles that can occur naturally in the mesosphere--...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In October spot Andromeda, our galactic neighbor....

Skywatchers have a chance to see some "shooting stars" this week during the annual Draconid meteor shower. The meteor display, which peaks overnight on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 8 and 9) is caused by the remains of a com...

Discovery double trouble; Russian satellites dancing in the dark; space medicine contract protest ends; tiny particle wins big award The possibility of NASA selecting two Discovery mission proposals does come with a catc...

At 15:55 CET today two ESA CubeSats, the student-built AAUSAT5 and the professional technology demonstrator GomX-3, were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS)....

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald will share this year's Nobel Prize in physics for helping to reveal that subatomic particles called neutrinos can change flavors, findings that meant these exotic particles have a te...

The six Metop Second Generation satellites will be manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space under a 1.3 billion-euro contract signed in October. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have detected faint light that dates from shortly after the big bang --

Astronomers have detected faint light that dates from shortly after the Big Bang --

I was puttering around online and happened across something that made me quite happy: CNN put out a short video about my pal Stephen Ramsden. He's a former air traffic controller who travels around with a very, very impr...

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass --

"The Martian" makes being stranded on the cold red planet seem almost romantic. But what are your real survival odds? XPRIZE Founder and CEO Peter Diamandis reasons out his personal choice in this inaugural episode of #A...

NASA selected 55 student teams from across the nation to participate in the 2015-2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, to be held April 13-17 near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Using stereo image data from ESA's Mars Express, German Aerospace Center (DLR) scientists created this highly accurate view of the terrain fictional astronaut Mark Watney"(played by Matt Damon) would of had to traverse t...