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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that while he has not had any contact with current presidential candidates, he hopes that the next administration will not make major changes to the agency's programs. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to provide development and operations support for the avionics software suite that will guide the agency's next generation of human ...

We could use laser light to mask our transits across the sun and thus hide Earth from any intelligent aliens looking for planets to invade.   --

An unpiloted Russian resupply vehicle launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 31 atop a Soyuz booster to deliver three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the residents of the International Space Station...

A Russian resupply ship left the International Space Station this morning and will be quickly replaced Saturday afternoon. In the meantime, the Expedition 47 crew went about its full schedule of advanced space science an...

Canadian Space Agency:

Peering deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Except for a few blue foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way's ...

Two astronomers at Columbia University in New York suggest humanity could use lasers to conceal the Earth from searches by advanced extraterrestrial civilisations. Professor David Kipping and graduate student Alex Teache...

A new paper published this month in The Astronomical Journal by astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reports a wellspring of new brown dwarf stellar companions, throwing cold water on the entire idea of t...

New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global climate change event.

Russia on Thursday launched a cargo ship to the International Space Station on an unmanned mission to resupply crew currently in space.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

"We could cloak only the atmospheric signatures associated with biological activity, such as oxygen, which is achievable with a peak laser power of just 160 kW per transit. To another civilization, this should make the E...

Reebok is releasing replicas of the high-top Stompers Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) wore in Aliens.

Peering deep into the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Apart from a few, blue, foreground stars, almost all of the st...

The star TW Hydrae is a popular target of study for astronomers because of its proximity to Earth (only about 175 light-years away) and its status as an infant star (about 10 million years old). It also has a face-on ori...

Peering deep into the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Apart from a few, blue, foreground stars, almost all of the st...

The star TW Hydrae is a popular target of study for astronomers because of its proximity to Earth (only about 175 light-years away) and its status as an infant star (about 10 million years old). It also has a face-on ori...

KELT-4Ab is only the fourth known system to contain three stars --

What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars? A group of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has been working on methods to take this question from the realm of imaginatio...

A senior JAXA official said March 29 that it was still possible to restore control of the Hitomi satellite, but that any recovery would likely take months.

"This is the first time such a temperature difference has been observed and gives us extraordinary insights into how atmospheres depend on how close the planet is to the star," siad San Francisco State University astrono...