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Venus has an "electric wind" strong enough to strip water's building blocks from the planet's atmosphere and fling it into space, new research suggests.

Someday, stargazers may see pink, green and violet shooting stars streak across the night sky, thanks to a startup company that wants to launch tiny, human-made meteors, according to news sources.

The Kepler telescope has discovered an exoplanet that is just 5 to 10 million years old, much younger than the typical planet --

Tropical Storm Danielle formed on June 20 and by June 21 the storm had dissipated over eastern Mexico....

A one-of-a-kind communications device developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is now orbiting the Earth as a central component of a microsatellite launched in Sriharikota, India on Tuesday to test new tech...

A dispute may be brewing between SpaceX and the Canaveral Port Authority, where the private space company brings its recovered boosters back to land. Citing concerns over wear and tear on the port's facilities, the Autho...

Massive stars that collapse upon themselves and end their lives as black holes, like the pair LIGO detected last September, are extremely rare. They are less evolved, "more primitive stars," that occur in special configu...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too close. When X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011,...

A cargo ship that was released last week from the International Space Station will re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday. Back inside the orbital lab, the crew practiced emergency procedures after a light day of science ...

A new study published in Nature presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predicts hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year observable with the second generation of gravitational wave...

NASA, the FAA, American Airlines the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) and the Charlotte Douglas International Airport are collaborating on a five-year effort to streamline aircraft arrival, departure ...

This month, NASA took a major step toward creating a Solar System Internet by establishing operational Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) service on the International Space Station....

Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) astrophysicist Dr. Tracy Clarke and an international team of resea...

Jeff Bezos, whose commercial space company Blue Origin recently completed another test flight of its New Shepard reusable suborbital vehicle, is the latest winner of the Heinlein Prize for commercial space achievements, ...

The ExoMars mission, currently en route to the Red Planet, has caught its first glimpse of the Martian surface. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) took an image of Mars from 25 million miles (41 million kilometers) away on June...

Despite its incredible distance from the sun, Pluto may still hide a liquid ocean beneath its surface. Surface features suggest the dwarf planet did not shrink as would be expected if the ocean had frozen entirely.

With eruptions of ice and water vapor, and an ocean covered by an ice shell, Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most fascinating in the Solar System, especially as interpretations of data provided by the Cassini space...

The Sentinel-2A satellite captured creation of the 'Floating Piers' installation on Lake Iseo by the Bulgarian-American artist, Christo

Space.com talked with actor Brent Spiner -- best known as Data from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" -- about the new movie "Independence Day: Resurgence," the 50th anniversary of "Star Trek," and his (unauthorized) nick...

Technology image of the week: Sentinel-2B being lowered into Europe's largest vacuum chamber for testing

A massive, 40-year-old artifact left over from NASA's Apollo moon program has landed a new mission as a roadside attraction on one of the busiest U.S. highways. Drivers taking I-10 to enter Mississippi were the first to ...