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A new photo beamed home by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which performed history's first flyby of Pluto this past July, reveals that the dwarf planet's skies have an azure tinge.

(Institute of Physics) Soft steps and large feet can allow animals and robots to maintain high speeds on very loose soil and sand.These findings, reported today, Friday, Oct. 9, in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomechani...

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The U.S. Air Force is expected to request funding next year for the third in its series of "pathfinder" experimental satellite bandwidth procurements. SpaceNews.com

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A report that provides an update on NASA's strategy for human deep space exploration that will enable our journey to Mars.

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD – The construction pace for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took a major leap forward with delivery of the actual flight structure that serves as the observatory's critic...

In their drive to set exploration goals for the future, NASA’s Discovery Program put out the call for proposals for their thirteenth Discovery mission in February 2014. After reviewing the 27 initial proposals, a panel...

A new study from the team behind NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity has confirmed that Mars was once, billions of years ago, capable of storing water in lakes over an extended period of time....

The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it's undoubtedly blue.

Representatives from 21 aviation research organizations around the world came together this week at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California to explore solutions for many of today's most significant aviat...

We have heard the Mars exploration mantra for more than a decade: follow the water. In a new paper published October 9, 2015, in the journal Science, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team presents recent results of its ...

Singapore's national post office, SingPost, successfully completed the first commercial drone test to deliver mail over a mile away in five minutes.

A series of freshwater lakes within Mars' 96-mile-wide Gale Crater likely persisted for hundreds or thousands of years at a time, and perhaps even longer, according to the new study, which is based on observations made b...

NASA's No. 3 official doubles down on agency rhetoric that a human spaceflight program featuring only a single crewed mission to lunar space in the next 10 years is indeed on its way to landing humans on Mars this centur...

A rocket carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government has successfully launched from the central California coast.

The ISS Progress 61 is photographed from the International Space Station moments after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....

A workshop where tools floated around would be difficult to work in. So, NASA has chosen two winning designs from K-12 students for a 3-D printed container to help astronauts on the International Space Station keep thing...

The Dream Chaser space plane, which would continue the legacy of NASA's shuttle program, is getting ready for a second stage of flight testing.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Our universe is actually really simple, it's just our cosmological theories that are getting needlessly complex, argues one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.