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The top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee said April 18 she will seek additional funding for NASA in a spending bill her committee will take up later this week. SpaceNews.com

Everybody knows that galaxies are enormous collections of stars. A single galaxy can contain hundreds of billions of them. But there is a type of galaxy that has no stars. That's right: zero stars. These galaxies are cal...

BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, will be removed from the back of the SpaceX Dragon late tonight before installation on the Tranquility module begins early Saturday. Expansion of the new habitat module won't...

On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was captured by the Laser Interferomete...

Monday's briefing begins with a ground report from Brownsville, where SpaceX is still laying down dirt in preparation for building its Boca Chica Beach launch site. SpaceNews.com

The United States and Mexico constructed the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory to observe some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe--the aftermath when massive stars die, glowing...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Oh, do I love science fiction on TV and in the movies. I'm grooving on The Expanse, 12 Monkeys, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and more. The science in a lot of these productions may not be perfect, but it's pretty dang good. C...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Recently, astronomers announced the results of a study using data collected with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of two comets -- C/2012 S1 (also known as "Comet ISON") and C/2011 S4 ("Comet PanSTARRS")....

So much for the love-fest. A formerly quiet, heart-shaped region (AR2529) blasted an M6.7 solar flare that disrupted shortwave radio communications on Earth on April 18th, 2016.

ESA's Sentinel-1 Mission Manager Pierre Potin joins the show to discuss the radar vision mission for Copernicus

Just days before 21 fragments of periodic comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the atmosphere of Jupiter, the Hubble Space Telescope developed two sets of problems.

The Cassini spacecraft is the size of a school bus and is loaded with all kinds of detectors to analyze the mighty planet Saturn, its atmosphere, moons, rings, and environment. Apropos of that last bit, one instrument, t...

At first glance, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image seems to show an array of different cosmic objects, but the speckling of stars shown here actually forms a single body a nearby dwarf galaxy known as Leo A....

Arches of magnetic field lines towered over the sun's edge as a pair of active regions began to rotate into view in this video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on April 5-6, 2016....

The UK Space Agency released its 2016-2017 Corporate Plan recently. Also released is a new Space Education Strategy policy paper....

This composite image of the Mt Brandberg Nature Reserve in Nambia, Africa was put together from several International Space Station images....

Start-up Internet satellite constellation operator OneWeb LLC will build most its 900-satellite constellation in a new factory in Exploration Park, Florida, following a co-funding agreement with the state of Florida, ind...

Comets get blamed for everything. Pestilence in medieval Europe? Comets! Mass extinctions? Comets! Even the anomalous brightness variations in the Kepler star KIC 8462852 was blamed for a time on comets. Now it looks lik...

In the last century, the linguist George Zipf noticed that the second most common word in English ("of") was used about half as often as the most common word ("the"), the third most common word ("and") occurred about one...

One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially benef...