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NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

In June 2009, Thorne resigned his Feynman Professorship (becoming the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus) in order to ramp up a new career in writing, movies, and continued scientific research. His most r...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Amy Shira Teitel, Author of “Breaking the Chains of Gravity” that was released in the States on January 12, 2016. Contributing writer for Vintage Space column on Popular Scie...

Fully opening this new window on the universe will take decades—even centuries --

Elon Musk has always been up-front about his desire to see humans settle on the Red Planet. In the past few years, he has said that one of his main reasons for establishing SpaceX was to see humanity colonize Mars. He ha...

Twelve years ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched a spacecraft with a very precious cargo--a robot laboratory designed to land on a comet and photograph, prod and sniff its surface.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

ESA inaugurated a new tracking dish in Australia yesterday, marking a significant step in the Agency's worldwide satcom network.

The first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves will open up an entirely new window on the universe, researchers say.

With the partnership, American will give customers the ability to request their Uber ride to the airport in step with their flight itinerary and the feature to set reminders for pickups.

The placid appearance of NGC 4889 can fool the unsuspecting observer. But the elliptical galaxy, pictured in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, harbours a dark secret. At its heart lurks one of the ...

With four days to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite for Copernicus is now on the launch pad at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. The rocket will be fuelled the day before the launch - set for 16 February at ...

Two astronauts are wrapping up spacesuit maintenance today while a variety of human research takes place inside the International Space Station. Outside the station, the 57.7 foot long Canadarm2 robotic arm is being prep...

New Horizons: Show how much you care with these special valentines - featuring the solar system's most famous heart!

Students from the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools in Austin, Texas, will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working on the International Space Station at 11:55 a.m....

It initiates a new phase in the exploration of the universe and in our search for the physical laws that govern it --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Silent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko from which it is unlikely to recover....

@astro_timpeake A copy of one of the oldest maps in Britain, now exploring the newest frontier here in space #mappamundi...

OK Go is a band that's a bit hard to define; Wikipedia lists them as "American alternative rock" which is possibly the least specific adjectival phrase I can think of (besides maybe "mostly carbon-based"). They make ridi...