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The second successful landing of a Falcon 9 booster on a floating barge is a milestone for the aerospace company --

Earlier this year, NASA and several partners tested new technology that will make it easier to measure Earth's position in space and time. The work will likely improve navigation of space missions and geophysical studies...

An orbital experiment is about to test to see if objects really fall at same speed in a gravitational field -- or wither some exotic physics may be detected.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

With Mercury’s inclined orbit, transits come 13 times a century --

A new University of Sussex study has cleared the air on what lies behind hot dust visible in the distant universe.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Paul Reichert is a Photo Instructor, NASA Johnson Space Center; International Space Station Mission Lead and Astronaut Technical Imaging Instructor (LM); Project lead for crew im...

Tim Peake: Evening sun lighting up this Himalayan lake Credits: ESA/NASA Larger image...

During a recent stargazing session, NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, have discovered an unusually shaped structure in two nearby disc galaxies. The Swinburne team recently developed new imaging software, making it possible to o...

The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to characteri...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury is displayed - regions with higher elevations are colored brown, yellow, and red. Lower elevations are colored blue and purple.

A new University of Sussex study has cleared the air on what lies behind hot dust visible in the distant universe.

The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to characteri...

Conventional understanding holds that the Big Bang began with a singularity, an unfathomably dense phenomenon of spacetime where the standard laws of physics break down. Singularities are bizarre, and our understanding o...

NASA Breaking News:

The second successful landing of a Falcon 9 booster on a floating barge is a milestone for the aerospace company --

Earthlings will witness Mercury make a rare passage between our planet and the Sun on Monday, appearing as a black dot tracking the surface of the star we share with the solar system's smallest planet.

Our week through the lens: 2-6 May 2016