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In an 'Independence Day' gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing missions to continue for another two years this holiday weekend. The biggest news is that NASA green ...

Juno, an unmanned NASA spacecraft, is barrelling toward Jupiter on a $1.1 billion mission to circle the biggest planet in the solar system and shed new light on the origin of our planetary neighborhood.

Since launching in 2011, NASA's Juno spacecraft has been cruising toward the biggest planet in the solar system. On Monday, Juno is scheduled to perform a nail-biting move designed to enter orbit around Jupiter to explor...

Exactly what powered the dynamo remains a mystery. One possibility is that the lunar dynamo was self-sustaining, like Earth's: As the planet has cooled, its liquid core has moved in response, sustaining the dynamo and th...

Things change. Even galaxies. They started off as monumentally huge clouds of gas, which then collapsed. A lot of things happened at that point, including star birth, interactions with other galaxies, the formation of a ...

To all Americans -- in space and on Earth -- NASA wishes you a safe and happy July 4th Independence Day....

NASA's Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Jupiter Monday night (July 4), ending a nearly five-year trek to the solar system's biggest planet. Here's how the highly anticipated arrival should go down.

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) After more than five years of construction, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope is finally getting ready to open its eye. On July 3, 2016, with the installation of t...

Sometimes Science joins with Art when the images are so meaningful that the crew pauses to reflect on our Earths beauty....