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NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EDT Friday, May 27 to provide an update on the expansion operations for the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) installed on the International Space Station. The teleco...

SETI Institute:

Using radar data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team found evidence of an ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars. Ice ages on Mars are driven by processes simi...

NASA's Human Research Program is releasing "Metabolomics: You Are What You Eat" video to highlight its Twins Study which uses omics to study Mark and Scott Kelly's metabolites. Omics is an evolving field integrating coll...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Volcanoes come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from common cinder cone volcanoes that build up from repeated eruptions and lava domes that pile up over volcanic vents to broad shield volcanoes and composite volcanoes. ...

Using radar data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team found evidence of an ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars. Ice ages on Mars are driven by processes simi...

Canadian Space Agency:

It looks like mostly good news in NASA's budget for 2017. The Commerce, Justice, and Science sub-committee is the House of Representatives body that oversees NASA finances, and they have released details on how they woul...

"For decades, conventional wisdom held that large Jupiter-mass planets take a minimum of 10 million years to form," said Christopher Johns-Krull, the lead author of a new study about the planet, CI Tau b, that will be pu...

In principle, nothing that enters a black hole can leave the black hole. This has considerably complicated the study of these mysterious bodies on which generations of physicists have debated ever since 1916, the year th...

In contradiction to the long-standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, U.S. astronomers today announced the discovery of a giant planet in close orbit around a star so young that it still retains a disk of c...

The private spaceflight company landed the Falcon 9 rocket first stage on their droneship "Of Course I Still Love You' on April 8, 2016 and May 6, 2016 after successful launches. The landings with different angles are sh...

Images from the space-inspired fashion project Couture in Orbit

NASA called off attempts to inflate the first privately built expandable room on the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 26) after early efforts to pump up the module didn't go exactly as planned.

NASA mission control put a stop on deployment operations of the Bigelow Expandable Crew Activity Module (BEAM) after technical issues on May 26, 2016. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams was handling the deployment duties on th...

Scientists have been trying to puzzle out for decades why the universe seems to weigh more than it should, and so far the answer points to dark matter--an invisible substance that they still don't clearly understand and ...

NASA is working closely with Bigelow Aerospace to understand why its module did not fully expand today as planned....

The final preparations are under way for Thursday morning's expansion of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) from the Tranquility module. Back on Earth, a veteran cosmonaut and a pair of first time space flyers...

This triptych brings together three excellent images of Mars acquired this month by two cameras in space and one in Australia.

Finding examples of intelligent life other than our own in the Universe is hard work. Between spending decades listening to space for signs of radio traffic - which is what the good people at the SETI Institute have been...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: