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The Obama Administration has announced its new Federal budget and is proposing to cut NASA's Fiscal Year 2017 Budget to $19 billion by carving away significant funding for deep space exploration, whereas the overall US F...

DARPA has released a video showcasing its progress in the Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program. The video shows the autonomous flying quadcopter going through an obstacle course at 45 mph speeds, and the gadget can do...

In a long list of my favorite astronauts, Sam Cristoforetti is near the top. She is an Italian space traveler with the European Space Agency, and there are a lot of reasons I like her: She has great taste in books, she i...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

A Rice University researcher will discuss images that may show the formation of a planet--or a planetary system--around a distant binary star at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Scien...

Still looking for the right card for your sweetheart this Valentine's Day? Why not do it in cosmic proportion by getting NASA on your side? The tender-hearted folks at agency may have just what you're looking for. The st...

"We had thought the first signal would be some little small thing poking up out of the noise and we'd have to work really hard to understand what it was," Nergis Mavalvala - the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of...

From amazing photos of the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves to scenes from a music video shot in microgravity, don't miss these great space images.

During his Feb. 9 State of NASA speech at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va, Administrator Charles Bolden characterized President Obama's $19 billion Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal for NASA as a vote of confidence...

Star Wars remixes and tribute songs filled the air as crowds of dressed-up fans and their parents (and children) packed into the learning center Feb. 12 to kick off "Science, Sabers and Star Wars," a weekend-long celebra...

(National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Using ALMA, astronomers have taken a new, detailed look at the very early stages of planet formation around a binary star. Embedded in the outer reaches of a double star's protoplan...

(Rice University) Rice University astrophysicist Andrea Isella will discuss evidence of planetary formation around a binary star at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, D.C., tod...

Breanna Binder, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and lecturer in the School of STEM at UW Bothell, spends her days pondering X-rays....