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The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the passing of NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell:

SETI Institute:

Although lizards mostly scurry on all fours, certain species can run on two legs when the mood strikes. What's the benefit to this human-like running style? For one thing, it seems to let lizards get over obstacles witho...

The U.S. Air Force launched the last in the 2F series of GPS satellites into geosynchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Feb. 5. SpaceNews.com

Stars are born inside a rotating cloud of interstellar gas and dust, which contracts to stellar densities thanks to its own gravity. Before finding itself on the star, however, most of the cloud lands onto a circumstella...

Frustrated with progress on a new ground system for the next-generation of GPS satellites the Pentagon hopes to start launching just over a year from now, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $96 million contract...

I've always liked the idea that Jupiter has acted like a protector to its little brother, Earth. That it has used its massive gravitational pull to divert asteroids and comets from a collision course with Earth. Maybe Ju...

Right now, we're staring hard at a small section of the sky, to see if we can detect any planets that may be habitable. The Kepler Spacecraft is focused on a tiny patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy, hoping to detect pl...

A Colorado company that said last year it had achieved a technological breakthrough in space transportation has decided to shut down, citing the high costs and risks associated with further development. SpaceNews.com

Scientists are still searching for what's behind the perceived dimming of Tabby's Star --

When we look at the night sky, we see stars as tiny points of light eking out a solitary existence at immense distances from Earth. But appearances are deceptive....

For more than a week the weather over the continental United States has been punctuated by extreme events. NASA analyzed satellite data that measured the heavy precipitation over ten days from late January to early Febru...

NASA's confirmation of the existence of a vast global ocean on Enceladus this past September casts a spotlight on Saturn's icy moon as the most potentially habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we k...

The minute-long ad, which will air Sunday (Feb. 7) during Super Bowl 50, stars actor Liam Neeson as "The Man from the Future," who travels back in time to tell a younger version of himself about the coming revolution in ...

The congressionally-mandated Space Launch System, currently in development, is built upon legacy technology. This NASA video compares the giant of Apollo to the Shuttle-derived 'new' SLS.

This image is a composite of radar scans by Sentinel-1A on different dates of the Siljan Ring, located in the province of Dalarna in central Sweden....

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Well, this is pretty cool news: The main mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope is now fully assembled! OK, first, JWST is the successor* to Hubble, an observatory optimized for viewing the Universe in infrared wavele...

The 18th and final segment on James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror was installed on 3 February

Elon Musk founded SpaceX with ambitions to explore Mars.

Our week through the lens: 1-5 February 2016

How acidic is the ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus? It's a fundamental question to understanding if this geyser-spouting moon could support life.