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The moon is now at first-quarter phase, a time when the play of light and shadow brings the most dramatic lunar features into sharp relief.

A new dwarf planet has been discovered beyond Neptune, in the disk of small icy worlds that resides there. The planet was discovered by an international team of astronomers as part of the Outer Solar Systems Origins Surv...

For only the second time in a year, a NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth.

An international team of astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

While this may look like a futuristic tunnel to another world, it is really looking up inside a nearly complete fuel tank for NASA's powerful, new rocket--the Space Launch System--that will take humans to destinations ne...

Tropical Storm Celia strengthened into a hurricane over the weekend of July 9 and 10 and NOAA's GOES-West satellite provided a visible look at the storm early on July 11.

Astronomers have believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy. Ellipticals are the most common type of galaxy and lack the spiral structure of disks like the Mil...

This striking view of Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko reveals portions of both comet lobes, with dramatic shadows on the 'neck' region between them....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Nicole Stott, a former NASA astronaut who was the first person to paint what she saw out the window while still in space, continues to document the celestial view back on Earth.

The largest outbreak of measles this year is occurring right now in Arizona. There have been 22 confirmed cases so far since late May. Up to that point, there were only 19 cases in the entire country in 2016. The outbrea...

Research published in April provided "slam dunk" evidence of two prehistoric supernovae exploding about 300 light years from Earth. Now, a follow-up investigation based on computer modeling shows those supernovae likely ...

"Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience" at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space museum in New York City gives attendees an immersive experience. Fmr. NASA astronaut and museum advisor Mike Massimino explains to Space.co...

Following 34 orbits around the Earth aboard their upgraded Soyuz spacecraft, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JA...

A celebrated Brazilian street artist will paint a colorful mural of Neil Armstrong, honoring the late Apollo astronaut in Cincinnati, Ohio. It's one not-so-small-step for a public art effort, one giant tribute for the fi...

Earth's atmosphere is leaking. Every day, around 90 tons of material escapes from our planet's upper atmosphere and streams out into space. Although missions such as ESA's Cluster fleet have long been investigating this ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly remarkable planet. Called HD 131399Ab*, it's in a triple-star system: It orbits a star orbited by another binary pair of stars! I know, I know: Pics or it didn't happen, right? Yeah, w...

For a long time the formation of protostellar disks - a prerequisite to the formation of planetary system around stars - has defied theoretical astrophysicists: In a dense, collapsing cloud of gas and dust, the magnetic ...

High-energy cosmic rays blasted out by a supernova may have played a role in the climatic changes that apparently led to a die-off at the end of the Pliocene era and the start of the Pleistocene, researchers said.

Research published in April provided "slam dunk" evidence of two prehistoric supernovae exploding about 300 light years from Earth. Now, a follow-up investigation based on computer modeling shows those supernovae likely ...

NASA will host a media event from 9 to 11 a.m. EDT Friday, July 15 at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, offering journalists an inside look at a new airborne study over the eastern United States.