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In 2012, the students from St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia lined up in the shape of a space shuttle in the school parking lot and witnessed the flyover of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it was bei...

The International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit early this morning after its first component, the Zarya cargo module, launched Nov. 20, 1998. That is over 2.6 billion miles traveled, nearly the distance fro...

The dwarf planets in our Solar System are some of the most interesting objects around. Of course, all of the Solar System objects--and anything in nature, really--are fascinating when you really focus on them. Now, a new...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

Mountains aren't the first thing that hit you when you look at images of Jupiter's innermost moon, Io. But once you absorb the fact that the moon is slathered in sulfurous lava erupted from 400 active volcanoes, you migh...

"We're studying an alien ocean using methods developed to understand the movement of energy and nutrients in Earth's own systems," says Steve Vance, a planetary scientist at JPL and lead author of an important JPL new st...

Carnegie's Allan Sandage, who died in 2012, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. His final paper, published posthumously, focuses on unraveling a surprising historical mystery related to one o...

The ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa could have the necessary balance of chemical energy for life, even if the moon lacks volcanic hydrothermal activity, finds a new study.

Carnegie's Allan Sandage, who died in 2012, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. His final paper, published posthumously, focuses on unraveling a surprising historical mystery related to one o...

A House appropriations bill released May 17 would provide NASA with $19.5 billion in 2017, with significant increases in funding for the agency's Orion and Space Launch System programs and a planned mission to Jupiter's ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A Maine police sergeant looking for speeders has captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera.

"Landing on the surface of Europa would be a key step in the astrobiological investigation of that world," said Chris McKay, a senior editor of the journal Astrobiology, who is based at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett...

Every now and again, a photograph from a spacecraft stops me dead in my tracks. The shot above is one such image, taken by the wonderful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows sunrise on the western part of the rim of Ja...

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said the intelligence community has likely not taken full advantage of products from a flurry of new commercial satellite imagery companies. SpaceNews.com

NASA: Kepler News and Features:

ESA and London's Science Museum are working with leading fashion schools around Europe to design clothes for the space age with Couture in Orbit

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Negotiations will start by June between the now fully operational Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) and the European Space Agency on the ASL's bid to complete construction of the future Ariane 6 rocket, ESA Launcher Director...

"We're interested in finding out how we can change the way light behaves, and how that could be useful," says Trinity College professor Paul Eastham. "What I think is so exciting about this result is that even this funda...