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"What happened to Mars?" is one of the most compelling questions in space science. It probably wasn't always the dead, dry, cold place it is now. Did its core cool and stop rotating, allowing the full glare of the sun to...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

By pushing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright i...

NASA's yearlong spaceman Scott Kelly took a long-anticipated plunge Thursday, jumping into his backyard pool, astronaut outfit and all.

Space is mostly vast and empty. So whenever we notice something like ripples on a lake, on the frozen moon of a gas giant, we take notice. At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco this week, it was...

With less than two weeks until the launch of ExoMars 2016, preparations are proceeding well and the spacecraft composite has now been encapsulated within the launcher fairing at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....

By pushing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe. This galaxy existed just 4...

By pushing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe....

By pushing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe. This galaxy existed just 4...

While astronaut Scott Kelly might have just come back down to Earth, plenty of people are still vying to do the opposite -- perhaps no one more so than the subjects of J.J. Abrams' new Web series documentary, which chron...

A full-length documentary, deleted scenes and more coming to the Digital HD (April 1) and Blu-Ray DVD (April 5) release of episode VII of the Star Wars saga.

Thursday's briefing begins with Elon Musk fact checking an erroneous claim that SpaceX is one of Donald Trump's biggest backers. SpaceNews.com

A new passenger jet that can fly at supersonic speeds without the distinctive but earsplitting sonic "boom" generated when these superfast planes travel faster than the speed of sound is one step closer to getting in the...

NASA's last remaining external tank built to launch the space shuttle is about to embark on its final mission, but instead of rocketing to orbit, the fuel tank will travel by ocean and road to join the retired orbiter En...

Mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat on March 3 sought to reassure investors that it had not become a capex junkie despite adding some $800 million in new spending over six years for two L- and Ka-band satellites ...

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams has already had 2 tours of duty on the International Space Station, along with a space shuttle mission (STS-101) and he's heading back on the next scheduled Soyuz launch.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

It's easy to forget that the story of Earth's water, from gentle rains to raging rivers, is intimately connected to the larger story of our solar system and beyond. But our water came from somewhere -- every world in our...

"If the duplications and subsequent mutations of this gene during evolution didn't happen, then life would be completely different today," said Steven Pelech, a professor in Division of Neurology in the UBC Faculty of Me...

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Using a set of coadded images taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and the University of Toronto in Canada, have provided new insi...