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Astronomers estimate that at the time the Solar system formed, its proto-planetary disk contained the equivalent of about twenty Jupiter-masses of gas and dust. This so-called "minimum mass solar nebula (MMSN)" is derive...

On Oct. 15, 2015, a NASA mission broke its own record: the four satellites of its Magnetospheric Multiscale mission are now flying at their smallest separation, the tightest multi-spacecraft formation ever flown in orbit...

Are we the only intelligent life in the universe? Here's how we intend to find out.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Even the most active, take-on-the world people have days when they just don't want to get out of bed. But that probably won't be the case for 12 men who agreed to spend 60 days and nights lying in a bed for science.

NASA's first Landing Sites/Exploration Zones Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars will be held Oct. 27-30 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. The agency will collect proposals for locations on ...

When in 1990 the solar probe Ulysses embarked on its 19-year-long exploration tour, the participating researchers turned their attention not only to our Sun, but also to significantly smaller research objects: interstell...

The U.S. government, primarily the Department of Defense, plans to spend some $6 billion on efforts to monitor the space environment in real time through 2020, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Spac...

The Mangala Valles outflow channel system on Mars, close to the Minio Valles, has been prone to prone to severe flooding episodes. These events were likely prompted by geologic activity such as volcanic eruptions in the ...

The United Launch Alliance missions, scheduled to launch in 2018, are the fourth satellite in the Space Based Infrared System, known as GEO-4, and the classified NROL-47. SpaceNews.com

This week astronomers announced an unusual transit signal from another star. Although it's most likely a natural phenomenon, one remote possibility is that this is some kind of alien megastructure. Freeman Dyson and othe...

Patrick Scheuermann will step down as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center effective Nov. 13, according to an email the 27-year NASA veteran sent out to employees at the Huntsville, Alabama-based field center ...

At long last, beautiful new high resolution views of the rotating Earth can be seen daily by everyone at a new NASA website – all courtesy of images taken by NASA's EPIC camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observato...

In both new space and traditional space, great accomplishments depend on people from all walks of life who believe in making their dreams come true. SpaceNews.com

(Note: we'll be posting this article as a running blog with updates over the next few mornings, as the Orionids are already moderately active for this week. Watch this space for info as it is added after our first meteor...

This is the GOP's front-running candidate for president of these United States, folks. Wow. Someone tell him that sometimes it gets cold in places due to winter. Remember, "weather is your mood, but climate is your perso...

The first of four next-generation U.S. civilian geostationary weather satellites will now launch in October 2016. SpaceNews.com

NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day....

Apollo 12 Hasselblad image from film magazine 55/EE - Orbital, Trans-Earth Coast...

This image shows the galaxy Messier 94, which lies in the small northern constellation of the Hunting Dogs, about 16 million light-years away....

NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR),...

On Friday, astronaut Scott Kelly quietly* became the longest duration American space traveler in history. On that date he surpassed the previous American record holder, Mike Fincke, at 382 accumulated days in space. To c...