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New chemical science findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate that ancient Mars likely had a higher abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere compared to the present day and was thus more hospitable to life forms, ...

According to veteran Russian space program reporter Anatoly Zak an ISS test of the cosmonaut-operated docking system on the Progress 62 cargo spacecraft didn't quite go as expected earlier this morning....

Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras -- stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere -- on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter....

Rosetta describes the exciting discoveries she made during her second year at the comet

Our week through the lens: 27 June - 1 July 2016

In three days, July 4th, the spacecraft Juno will arrive at Jupiter, the culmination of a five-year, billion-dollar journey. It's mission: to peer deep inside the gas giant and unravel its origin and evolution. One of th...

On July 5, 2016, at 03:18 UTC (July 4 at 11:18 p.m. Eastern US time), the Juno spacecraft will ignite its main engine. It will burn for 35 minutes, and when it's done the spacecraft will be doing something a NASA mission...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local neighborhood -- NGC 1569, a small galaxy located about eleven million light-years away in the con...

Two cosmonauts are resting today before they test a new system by flying a cargo ship back to its port early Friday. Commander Jeff Williams spent the morning testing a pair of free-floating satellites known as SPHERES.....

Today, an international team of six astronauts from China, Japan, USA, Spain and Russia will descend into the caves of Sardinia, Italy, to explore the depths and train for life in outer space.

Swirling storms. Dusty rings. Glowing polar lights.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

On Thursday afternoon (June 30), Juno's handlers sent a command designed to transition the probe into autopilot mode.

Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history....

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has completed its historic primary mission, during which the probe became the first ever to visit a dwarf planet and the first to orbit two different bodies beyond the Earth-moon system.

Astronomers have spotted glowing droplets of condensed water in the distant Spiderweb Galaxy - but not where they expected to find them. Detections with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show that t...

Now available is the June 15, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Gordon Roesler of DARPA's Tactical Technology Office who discussed "Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellit...

Experience the unfolding of time with Terrence Malick's "Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience," set for release in IMAX theaters on Oct. 7.

Syfy's complex space mystery "Dark Matter" returns for Season 2 today (July 1), promising more enemies, bigger fights and shocking deaths.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local neighborhood--NGC 1569, a small galaxy located about eleven million light-years away in the const...

Astronomers have spotted glowing droplets of condensed water in the distant Spiderweb Galaxy - but not where they expected to find them. Detections with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show that t...

Ever wondered why humans have not colonized Mars, or traveled further into space? We have. It is not because the technology is lacking - in fact, using the technology we have today it might be possible to achieve these a...