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New measurements show that quasars can blow far past the theoretical temperature limit of 100 billion degrees Kelvin (179 billion degrees Fahrenheit), which has scientists puzzled.

I love being surprised by a picture. I first saw the photo above when my friend Bobak Ferdowsi tweeted a link to it, having seen it himself on the RidingWithRobots Twitter feed. When I saw it, I literally gasped. It's a ...

It's time to whip out your 3-D glasses to enjoy and scrutinize the remarkable detail of spectacular terrain revealed in a new high resolution stereo image of Pluto - King of the Kuiper Belt! - taken by NASA's New Horizon...

When NASA's New Horizons sped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took the best-ever pictures of the rocky world s surface, giving us new insight into its geology, composition and atmosphere. These stunning images are the mo...

For years, scientists have been hunting for the stable lava tubes that are believed to exist on the Moon. A remnant from the Moon's past, when it was still volcanically active, these underground channels could very well ...

"After exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new life in the universe, I can now boldly go where I've rarely gone before - home," said John Grunsfeld who will retire from NASA April 30, capping nearly four decades...

Titan is a moon shrouded in mystery. Despite multiple flybys and surface exploration conducted in the past few decades, this Cronian moon still manages to surprise us from time to time. In addition to having a dense atmo...

NASA provider SpaceX is scheduled to launch its eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station on Friday, April 8. NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 3:30 p.m. EDT.

John Grunsfeld, NASA's associate administrator for science and a self-described "Hubble hugger" who flew on several missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, will retire from the agency at the end of April, NASA ann...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The 32nd Space Symposium takes place April 11-14 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. SpaceNews wil be covering all four jam-packed days of the premier civil, military, commercial and newspace conference. Check back for more c...

John Grunsfeld will retire from NASA April 30, capping nearly four decades of science and exploration with the agency. His tenure includes serving as astronaut, chief scientist, and head of NASA's Earth and space science...

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing ways of taking samples from dusty, low-gravity moons and asteroids

In Abandoned in Place photographer Roland Miller takes readers on a tour of the right stuff turned to relics --

Boeing, enmeshed in a long-running legal dispute with its Russian and Ukrainian partners in Sea Launch, has filed a motion in U.S. federal court to block an impending sale of the launch company by the Russian government....

Earth and sky are not separate; they interact. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured deeply colored airglow bands punctuated by thunderstorms and a hint of auroras.

This March 9, 2016 image was collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite....

Multiple teams finally have the material they need to repeat an enigmatic experiment --

On Mars, formerly water-filled craters transformed to dry mile-high mounds with the help of wind.

Astronomers are homing in on the whereabouts of a hidden giant planet in our solar system, and could discover the unseen beast in roughly a year --

If you've been reading my blog for any amount of time at all, I really shouldn't need to do any urging to get you to watch a gorgeous time-lapse video of aurorae. So, here: Breathtaking. There is something particularly s...

Astronomers are homing in on the whereabouts of a hidden giant planet in our solar system, and could discover the unseen beast in roughly a year --