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Understanding whether Jupiter's relative uniqueness is a real feature, or another product of selection effects, has real implications for our understanding of exoplanets.

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The launch of Jason-3, an international mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue U.S.- European satellite measurements of the topography of the ocean surface, is scheduled for...

Remember that time an X-Wing fighter flew past the International Space Station? Or when R2D2 saved the ISS crew? OK, yeah, those things didn't really happen, but since the first Star Wars movie came out in 1977, there ha...

What's that? Not one, but a SWARM of dust devils on Mars!

Aerojet Rocketdyne said Dec. 17 that the AR1 engine it hopes to build for United Launch Alliance's next-generation rocket has completed a key design review. SpaceNews.com

The most massive black holes in the universe are often encircled by thick, doughnut-shaped disks of gas and dust....

Just in time for the release of the movie "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens," NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber....

In detective stories, as the plot thickens, an unexpected clue often delivers more questions than answers. In this case, the scene is a mountain on Mars....

New findings by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover are the focus of a press conference this morning at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, Calif. A group of scientists, including one from Los Alamos N...

With funding in the 2016 omnibus spending bill approved by House and Senate appropriators, NASA will be able to revive Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3, a dormant effort to measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Spac...

Just in time for the release of the movie "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens," NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber.

New research has revealed that the thick donut-shaped disks of gas and dust that surround most massive black holes in the universe are 'clumpy' rather than smooth as originally thought.

ESA's Rosetta probe directed it's wide angle camera to capture 30 images at 1-minute intervals of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it moved against the background stars.

A watch that flew to the moon, of the same make and model as NASA issued to all of its Apollo astronauts to wear in space, was sold by Christie's for nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the watchmaker's own museum.

When Tropical Storm Melor was raining on Luzon in the northern Philippines, the GPM satellite analyzed the rainfall rate. The next day, NASA's Terra satellite caught a look at Melor after it moved off-shore and weakened ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

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After a comet for Halloween, another Earthly holiday will be marked by a visit from a celestial body--this time a large asteroid zipping past on Christmas Eve, astronomers said Thursday.

'Monkey King' is first in a line of Chinese space missions focused on scientific discovery --

Many of you who read my blog are already aware of my dear friend Michelle Thaller, who's an astronomer and a wonderful science communicator. She's been on TV (we both do the talking head gig for How the Universe Works, f...

The LUNA experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy has observed a rare nuclear reaction that occurs in giant red stars, a type of star in which our sun will also evolve. This is the first direct...