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The rules would have owners registering their unmanned aircrafts with the federal government with the machine's information stored in a national database. Each drone would have to have a registration number marked on it.

"The Martian," which stars Matt Damon as a NASA astronaut stranded and presumed dead on the Red Planet, is up for Raw Science's 2015 Kip Thorne Gravity Award for the best depiction of a scientific principle in film.

NASA selected Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, to restart production of the RS-25 engine for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, and deliver a certified engine. SLS...

Mars may one day have rings like Saturn's, if the Red Planet manages to completely crush its innermost moon, Phobos.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

All fundamental particles are either fermions or bosons. Last week we talked about quarks, which are fermions. This week we’ll talk about bosons, including the famous Higgs boson, recently confirmed by the Large Hadron...

Dark matter is called "dark" for a good reason. Although they outnumber particles of regular matter by more than a factor of 10, particles of dark matter are elusive. Their existence is inferred by their gravitational in...

Based on many observations of its gravitational pull in action, scientists are certain that dark matter exists, and have measured how much of it there is in the universe to an accuracy of better than one percent. The lea...

Coheed and Cambria's music often plays upon space themes. Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Josh Eppard and Zach Cooper's private tour of NASA Johnson Space Center by astronaut Mike Foreman discovered Robonaut 2, ISS and S...

What really happened at the start of the Big Bang?

The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of...

The company plans to build a family of simple expendable rockets offering dedicated rides for satellites weighing less than 1,000 kilograms. SpaceNews.com

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A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Przeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or "hairs."...

United Launch Alliance has pledged to carry as many as 24 cubesats on each launch of its Atlas 5 rocket beginning in mid-2017. SpaceNews.com

The next crew to live and work at the Concordia Antarctic research station has arrived in the white desert....

The U.S. National Science Foundation effort has raised concerns among astronomers about the observatory's future. SpaceNews.com

One hundred years ago this month, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, one of the most important scientific achievements in the last century.

ESA announces the chance for scientists to submit their proposals for the next potential Earth Explorer satellite mission

Water from sources such as aquifers could last long enough to pool, with larger pools remaining liquid for at least a year, according to researchers --

A 42 km-wide impact crater and numerous smaller craters straddle the northwestern rim of the 460 km-diameter Schiaparelli basin in this image taken by ESA's Mars Express on 15 July 2010....

During the earliest evolution on earth, life probably resembled one big genetic jumble. At some time, presumably around 3.8 to 3.5 billion years before today, the very first biological species appeared - the ancestor of ...