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What happens to your body in space? NASA's Human Research Program has been unfolding answers for over a decade....

The outgoing director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Nov. 19 floated the idea of sending a small scout helicopter to the red planet along with the Mars 2020 sample caching rover headed there in 2020. SpaceNews.co...

A study published in today's Astrophysical Journal by University of Texas at Austin assistant professor Steven Finkelstein and colleagues reveals that galaxies were more efficient at making stars when the universe was yo...

Invisible to the naked eye, charged particles spin along magnetic lines above 2 active regions of the Sun in this time lapse video from Nov. 11-12, 2015 when NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the scene at the ex...

On Nov. 9, 2015, NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead, or STEREO-A, once again began transmitting data at its full rate. For the previous year, STEREO-A was transmitting only a weak signal--or occasio...

GPS is critical to our national security and our economy. So it's a prime target for increasingly sophisticated cyberattackers. It's incredible that we've remained relatively unscathed thus far. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

This image of the Milky Way from the edge of the Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone on June 27, 2015.

Abraham Lincoln is best-known for abolishing slavery and keeping the United States together through the Civil War, but he also helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse we know today.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

El Niño: An unusually warm pool of water off the west coast of South America, usually arriving around Christmas time, linked with complex, large-scale interactions between the atmosphere and ocean in the Pacific....

ESA plans to track the health of the world's vegetation by detecting and measuring the faint glow that plants give off as they convert sunlight and the atmosphere's carbon dioxide into energy.

Our Sun is a relatively quiet star that only occasionally releases solar flares or blasts of energetic particles that threaten satellites and power grids....

NASA's Curiosity rover is on the road to soon start the first ever study of currently active sand dunes anywhere beyond Earth. The dunes are located nearby, at the foothills of Mount Sharp, and Curiosity is due to arrive...

Engineers at Virgin Galactic's production facility explain the rigorous tests they have to run to get their new SpaceShipTwo up to spec for flight.

As the most experienced launch company in the nation, United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced today it is taking CubeSat rideshares to the next level by launching a new, innovative program offering universities the chance...

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to spend tens of millions of dollars studying ways to use data from emerging startups deploying constellations of small imaging satellites. SpaceNews.com

New research has revealed 574 massive, ancient galaxies lurking in the night sky, and their existence so close to the time of the Big Bang calls into question scientists' best understanding of how large galaxies form.

NASA's Johnson Space Center is back in the music business, aping Andy Grammar's "Honey I'm Good," as 'NASA is Good,' to raise interest in Scott Kelly's Space Station mission, plus Pathways and Student Intern opportunitie...

Our world is ruled by four fundamental forces: the gravitational pull of massive objects, the electromagnetic interaction between electric charges, the strong nuclear interaction holding atomic nuclei together and the we...

Scientists photograph a gas-giant exoplanet forming around a young star that lies about 450 light-years from Earth --

Scientists photograph a gas-giant exoplanet forming around a young star that lies about 450 light-years from Earth --