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It was rain that wouldn't quit. A weather system fueled by warm moisture streaming in from the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 3 and 4 relentlessly dumped between one and two feet of rain across most of South Carolina....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Aldrin would like the president of the United States (whoever it happens to be) to announce a crewed Mars commitment on July 20, 2019, the "golden anniversay" of the giant leaps Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took on the luna...

High-resolution images trickling in from NASA’s New Horizons mission showcase the distant dot’s curious qualities --

The addition of tens of thousands of photos taken by the Apollo astronauts on the moon to an online repository drew wide interest in the media, but lost in many of the headlines were the facts behind the 40-year-old NASA...

In February of 2014, NASA put out the call for submissions for the thirteenth mission of their Discovery Program. In keeping with the program’s goal of mounting low-cost, highly focused missions to explore the Solar Sy...

Stalled legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank could be headed for a vote as soon as Oct. 26. SpaceNews.com

Over next three weeks, we're going to be treated to a show being staged in the eastern twilight skies by three bright planets: Jupiter, Mars and Venus. And the often hard-to-spot planet Mercury is joining the show, too.

A paper coauthored by Tom Maccarone, a Texas Tech University associate professor in the Department of Physics, studies one of the most important but least understood processes in astronomy: accretion, or the growth in ma...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Alan Ladwig: a retired NASA manager who wore many hats over a long advocacy career dedicated to bringing space to anyone ... or anyone to space. SpaceNews.com

NASA and The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, have received confirmation the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) CubeSat spacecraft is in orbit and operational....

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier ) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein / briankoberlei...

More than 8,400 unprocessed scans have been uploaded into the online Project Apollo Archive. The entire gallery is available on the photo-sharing service Flickr.

Much to the amazement and delight of scientists, the latest findings about Pluto reveal it possesses hazy blue skies and numerous red colored patches of water ice exposed on the surface of a world also now known as "The ...

If you’re going to be in the Austin area on October 16/17, and you’re into space exploration, you’re going to want to check out the 2015 New World’s Conference. (...)Read the rest of New World’s Conference Star...

Musk blasts possible RD-180 waiver; Atlas launches NRO mission; McCarthy drops out; Chris Hadfield’s space shanties An Atlas 5 placed a classified payload and a group of cubesats into orbit Thursday. The Atlas 5 lifted...

NASA says the orbiter it aims to launch in the 2020s could carry the mechanisms needed to collect and store surface samples for a return trip to Earth.

NASA and The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, have received confirmation the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) CubeSat spacecraft is in orbit and operational. OCSD launched aboard an ...

Following aborted stock offering for maritime surveillance unit, component maker Com Dev said it is now considering whether to put itself up for sale. SpaceNews.com

The company expects to complete its final report on the June 28 failure within a month, but does not yet have a firm timetable for resuming flights. SpaceNews.com

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 o...