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The Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF), which was installed aboard the International Space Station in late April, printed out its first tool last week -- a wrench that astronauts can use to perform light maintenance w...

The Orbital Sciences' cargo craft departed the International Space Station at 9:30am EST on June 14, 2016. It has one last mission to complete before its fiery atmospheric reentry destruction - NASA's Saffire experiment,...

Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in... --

"This is the first molecule detected in interstellar space that has the property of chirality, making it a pioneering leap forward in our understanding of how prebiotic molecules are made in the Universe and the effects ...

"This is the first molecule detected in interstellar space that has the property of chirality, making it a pioneering leap forward in our understanding of how prebiotic molecules are made in the Universe and the effects ...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL -- Less than three weeks after their last launch and landing attempt involving a Thai payload, SpaceX is set to continue the firms rapid fire pace of satellite deliveries to orbit wit...

A new atlas of light pollution shows that most people never see a truly dark sky at night. You can

Like a pair of human hands, certain organic molecules have mirror-image versions of themselves, a chemical property known as chirality. These so-called "handed" molecules are essential for biology and have intriguingly b...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

What an age we live in. This summer marks the very first opposition of Pluto since New Horizons' historic flyby of the distant world in July 2015. If you were like us, you sat transfixed during the crucial flyby phase, t...

In 1936, the young star FU Orionis began gobbling material from its surrounding disk of gas and dust with a sudden voraciousness....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Orbital ATK's unmanned Cygnus space capsule departed from the International Space Station on schedule Tuesday, three months after delivering 7,500 pounds (3,400 kilos) of supplies, material for scientific experiments and...

Like a pair of human hands, certain organic molecules have mirror-image versions of themselves, a chemical property known as chirality. These so-called "handed" molecules are essential for biology and have intriguingly b...

NASA Breaking News:

A newly uncovered meteorite may be the first-ever extinct meteorite -- a member of a class of meteorite that no longer falls to Earth.

"When Piazzi discovered Ceres, exploring it was beyond imagination. More than two centuries later, NASA dispatched a machine on a cosmic journey of more than 3 billion miles to reach the distant, mysterious world he glim...

Two volunteer participants in an international citizen science project have had a rare galaxy cluster that they found named after them.

A morsel of never-before-seen alien rock has been dug up in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had lain deeply buried for about 470 million years, scientists said Tuesday.

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, NASA John H. Glenn Research Center and around the world will perform the largest fire-safety experiment ever in space when the unmanned Cygnus cargo module backs a safe d...

A private cargo vessel has left the International Space Station (ISS) and will soon host the biggest fire-in-space experiment ever conducted.

The first systematic study to demonstrate that early building blocks of life may be produced when low-energy (< 20 eV) electrons interact with cosmic (interstellar, planetary, and cometary) ices," will be presented by Ch...