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Port Canaveral, FL- The first ever daylight arrival afforded endless eye-popping views of what can only be described as a truly radiant SpaceX Falcon 9 recovered first stage booster sailing victoriously into Port Canaver...

Astronauts aren't the only ones who get to use NASA technology. Computer scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, work to make flight software and satellite technology more ac...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

One of Europe's smallest states, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, cast its eyes to the cosmos on Friday, announcing it would draw up a law to facilitate mining on asteroids.

Suddenly, everyone from the U.S. government, commercial satellite companies, universities and even high school students needs to have a small satellite.

The exoplanet Kepler-62f could be an oasis for life as we know it, but direct observations of its atmosphere are needed.

The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a third of the land cove...

The existence of a 13-billion year old planet, if in fact it still exists, highlights the fact that our Solar System exits in a universe that is estimated to be between 13.5 and 14 billion years old. A few intrepid...

“Dark radiation” is named as a possible factor, as a new study suggests expansion could be 9 percent faster --

At this point, the New Horizons probe is nearly 400 million kilometers past Pluto, more than twice the distance from the Earth to the Sun, now almost a year after it shot past the diminutive ice world. But on July 15, 20...

(Phys.org)--The team that has posted a project called KickSat on crowd sourcing site KickStarter, has arranged to have the tiny satellite system sent to the International Space Station on July 6. KickSat is a satellite s...

Our week through the lens: 30 May-3 June 2016

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A small asteroid blazed a spectacular trail through Arizona's skies early Thursday morning (June 2), and the dramatic celestial event was caught on video.

An architecture and design class partners with NASA to develop a human-focused spacecraft environment that could take astronauts to Mars --

A spectacular new image of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons probe shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies.

In the landmark television series "Cosmos," astronomer Carl Sagan famously proclaimed, "We are made of star stuff."

Heriot-Watt University is the only site in Scotland participating in satellite data collection as part of a landmark five-year experiment with NASA and the European Space Authority (ESA).

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained at a high phase angle -that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto,...

Before humans could take their first steps on the moon, that mysterious and forbidding surface had to be reconnoitered by robots. When President John Kennedy set a goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface in 1961,...

The most intense source of gamma radiation constructed to date will soon become operational at the ELI Nuclear Physics research facility. It will enable the study of reactions that reveal the details of many processes oc...

ESA's Rosetta mission temporarily lost communication with Earth after an error with its star tracker this weekend.