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The science team leading NASA's New Horizons mission that unveiled the true nature of Pluto's long hidden looks during the history making maiden close encounter last July, have published a fresh global map that is the sh...

A paper published in the journal Science Advances, lead author Karen Meech of the University of Hawai`i's Institute for Astronomy and her colleagues conclude that C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) formed in the inner Solar System at...

The White House has endorsed a proposal where the FAA would provide oversight of "non-traditional" commercial space activities, eliminating a policy barrier for proposed missions beyond Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the selection of Michael Watkins as the new director of the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

NASA has selected Science and Technology Corporation of Hampton, Virginia, to provide support services at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California under the Aeronautics and Exploration Mission Modelin...

The military is launching tests on the world's largest unmanned surface vessel--a self-driving, 132-foot ship designed to travel thousands of miles out at sea without a single crew member on board.

The results of Earth-bound lab experiments appear to back up the theory that dark lines on Martian slopes are created by water--though in an otherworldly manner, scientists said Monday.

"The kind of planets we've found are very exciting from the perspective of searching for life in the universe beyond Earth," said Adam Burgasser, a professor of physics at UC San Diego's Center for Astrophysics and Space...

Students from 11 schools in South Holland, Illinois, will have the opportunity to speak with two NASA astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 11:55 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 5. The ...

Three more potentially Earthlike worlds have been discovered in our galactic backyard, announced online today by the European Southern Observatory. Researchers using the 60cm TRAPPIST telescope at ESO's La Silla observat...

Three potentially habitable Earth-size planets have been discovered orbiting a dim, cold nearby star that is barely larger than Jupiter, researchers say.

On 14 March 2016, the Roscosmos State Corporation and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the jointly-developed ExoMars 2016 interplanetary mission...

There are times when I glance at an image and right away I know something is peculiar about it. Such was the case for UGC 477, the very lovely but decidedly weird galaxy pictured above. The image was taken using Hubble S...

Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets.

Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets....

Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. It is an important constituent of the clouds of gas and dust in space, especially when combined in molecules with other atoms like car...

Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets.

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New Horizons:

If you're going to look for life beyond our solar system, the best yet place to look has just been discovered. Astronomers have detected 3 worlds, similar in size and tempature as Venus and Earth, orbiting dwarf star 2MA...

The halt in the increase in the complexity of life happened more than 3,000 million years ago, before the separate evolution of bacteria, eukaryotes and archaebacteria, as all organisms use the same code to produce prote...

NASA's Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover successfully bored a brand new hole in Mars at a tantalizing sandstone outcrop in the 'Lubango' fracture zone this past weekend on Sol 1320, Apr. 23, and is now carefu...