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An aircraft designer was able to come up with a supersonic jet concept that can make flying from London to New York in 11 minutes possible. The jet is said to travel at 16,000 mph, thus having the ability to break the so...

The Moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths, and the first image of the atmosphere made with data from the New Horizons Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spect...

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The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

This spring, Mars will appear the biggest and brightest it's been in over a decade, and here are the best times to see it.

Independence Plaza, a new exhibit at Space Center Houston, lets visitors walk inside the aircraft that ferried the space shuttle around the U.S. The exhibit is both awesomely huge and intimate.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratary has created an enhanced color animation of Ceres that highlights the differences in surface material. NASA's Dawn probe captured the images used to create the animation.

Martin Bojowald, a professor of phycics at Penn State University, presents his fascinating ideas about "Loop Quantum Cosmology" in Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe. "Will we ever," Bojowald asks, "with a p...

A colorful new animation shows a simulated flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Despite what you'll often read, the Nobel prizewinning nuclear physicist never suggested that aliens don't exist --

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report.

New Horizons:

New Horizons:

Ground measurements are essential for making sure that satellites deliver accurate information about our changing world....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report. Scientists...

Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going. Our galactic neighbor Andromeda almost certainly expired a few billion years ago, but only recently started showing outward signs of its d...

Paraglider Horacio Llorens has always wanted to fly with the gorgeous northern lights. In January 2016, he finally got his wish and Red Bull was there to capture the photos and video.

Part of Sierra Leone in West Africa is pictured in this image the Sentinel-2A satellite captured on 11 December 2015....