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LOG ENTRY: SOL 25--Remember those old math questions you had in Algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? Well, t...

While on orbit, astronauts write in their personal journals at least three times per week....

Stunning images of Earth's sunlit face, snapped by a satellite located 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from the planet, will be available daily for people to browse on a new NASA website.

The nonprofit B612 Foundation says it is continuing efforts to develop a space telescope to search for near-Earth asteroids despite fundraising challenges and a recent NASA decision to terminate a cooperative agreement. ...

Robots may not feel pain or embarrassment, but they still have good reasons to avoid a wipeout. Their parts are expensive, for one thing, and they're lousy at healing their own scrapes. And robots that walk around on two...

Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever fo...

A gorgeous example of a phenomenon known as "light pillars" was captured in this breathtaking scene over Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina by astrophotographer Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

President Barack Obama greeted a group of stargazers on the South Lawn, for the White House Astronomy Night on Oct. 19. The visitors included teachers, students, future scientists and astronaut-hopefuls who gathered to l...

Virgin Galactic is planning to return to a rubber-like fuel when it resumes powered test flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle based on the results of an ongoing series of tests of the spacecraft's hybrid rocket...

NASA researchers say that future Earths are more likely to appear inside giant galaxy clusters and also in dwarf galaxies, which have yet to use up all their gas for building stars and accompanying planetary systems. By ...

Satellite builder Mitsubishi Electric Co. said Turksat-4B has sufficient fuel to operate for "at least 30 years." SpaceNews.com

Scientists at Washington State University and the University of Idaho are helping students figure out how to farm on Mars, much like astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, attempts in the critically acclaimed movie...

Back in March, I posted some intensely cool pictures and video of the erupting Volcán de Colima, also known as Tonaltepetl. They were taken by César Cantú, an amazing astrophotographer. He recently posted more pictur...

Astronomers have now confirmed the existence of nearly 2,000 planets beyond our own solar system --

Astronomers have now confirmed the existence of nearly 2,000 planets beyond our own solar system --

Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe...

A naval explanation for Russian satellite's movements -- Canadian election portends space policy changes -- Marshall director retiring SpaceNews.com

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reached a milestone in its seven-year mission today with the publication of 14 papers in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. Data from IBEX, led by Southw...

Astrophysicists have developed a method for calculating the effect of Rayleigh scattering on photons, potentially allowing researchers to better understand the formation of the Universe. The CMB is the oldest light in th...

The droneport could begin construction as soon as next year, expecting each drone to deliver cargo weighing up to 22 pounds.

Stanford scientists have discovered a surprising source for an organic molecule used as an indicator for life on early Earth. "Scientists will have to take on a much more nuanced interpretation of what this molecule is t...