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The U.S.’s measly stockpile of plutonium is barely adequate for missions planned for the next decade --

NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California....

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of MythBusters announced on Wednesday the show will end after next season. In 2008, Phil Plait wrote about one of his favorite MythBusters episodes on the Moon Hoax. The original is reprinte...

When a star comes too close to a black hole, the intense gravity of the black hole results in tidal forces that can rip the star apart. In these events, called tidal disruptions, some of the stellar debris is flung outwa...

NASA has contracted with Logical Innovations, Inc. of Houston to provide technical and administrative services in support of the directorates, programs, and offices at the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edw...

Venus has been dominating the morning sky for the past two months, and Monday (Oct. 26), it will form a vivid tableau with Jupiter and Mars as it reaches its farthest point from the sun.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Universität Bochum have compiled the largest astronomical image to date. The picture of the Milky Way contains 46 billion pixels. In order to view it, researchers headed by Prof Dr Rolf Chini from the Chair of Astrophys...

A tidal disruption was detected using multiple orbiting observatories by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in Nov. 2014. The event occurred in galaxy PGC 043234 about 290 million light years away from...

Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission.

The deployment of two Cubesats is on hold after they failed to eject a couple of weeks ago. Also, more spacesuit servicing and biomedical investigations took place today....

The Death Star of the movie Star Wars may be fictional, but planetary destruction is real....

Yes, it’s true: a rather not-so-tiny near-Earth asteroid 2015 TB145 will make a relatively close pass by our dear planet Earth on October 31, aka Halloween -- the night when certain beliefs profess that the veil separa...

Scott Kelly officially broke the record for the most time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut on Oct. 13th. 2015, surpassing Mike Finke's record 381 days. The president called to congratulate him on the achievement on Oct...

Astronomers group stars into classes according to spectral color and brightness.

The planet-destroying Death Star from "Star Wars" may be fictional, but a star at the end of its life and only a bit bigger than Earth could be its real-world twin: the star is currently destroying and disintegrating an ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The Death Star of the movie Star Wars may be fictional, but planetary destruction is real. Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant whit...

When a star comes too close to a black hole, the intense gravity of the black hole results in tidal forces that can rip the star apart. In these events, called tidal disruptions, some of the stellar debris is flung outwa...

Within modern cosmology, the Big Bang marks the beginning of the universe and the creation of matter, space and time about 13.8 billion years ago. Since then, the visible structures of the cosmos have developed: billions...

Although the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) follow-on mission has been described by the U.S. Air Force as one that would feature dedicated government satellites, industry officials say the service recently indicat...

A series of setbacks for the entrepreneurial space industry in the last year, including several high-profile accidents, has left many in the field chastened but still optimistic about a future that has taken longer to de...