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(Southwest Research Institute) Dr. John Spencer, an Institute scientist at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), is receiving the 2016 Planetary Sciences Section Whipple Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Th...

The European Space Agency's orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a "gravitational vortex" around a black hole. The discovery, aided by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) ...

NASA provider SpaceX is scheduled to deliver scientific research, crew supplies and hardware on its ninth Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station Monday, July 18. Coverage of this mission ...

We here at Earth are fortunate that we have a viable atmosphere, one that is protected by Earth's magnetosphere. Without this protective envelope, life on the surface would be bombarded by harmful radiation emanating fro...

A lightweight telescope that a team of NASA scientists and engineers is developing specifically for CubeSat scientific investigations could become the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes in an epoxy resin.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

As NASA spacecraft explore deeper into space, onboard computer electronics must not only be smaller and faster, but also be prepared for extreme conditions. A prime example is shown in these images: a family of Applicati...

About 250 million light-years away, there's a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, is a satellite that orbits the Sun about 1.5 million km from the Earth. That's a (meta)stable orbit that keeps it between the Sun and Earth, so that when it looks at our ...

NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is orbiting about a million miles from Earth and capturing stunning imagery of our planet every day. For the second time in a year, it captured the far side of the...

The newfound icy world may be roughly 700 kilometers in size, and orbits the sun once ever 700 years --

Today: 47 Soyuz (47S) Docking - 47S successfully docked to the ISS at 11:06 PM CDT last Friday. The arrival of Expedition 48 crew members Anatoly Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi and Kate Rubins, the ISS will be in 6-crew operat...

If you thought the upcoming GOP national convention was going to be anything other than a look into a parallel dimension, then here's a taste of what to expect. On Monday, the Republican National Committee had a hearing ...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft delivering three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station beginning at 5:30 p.m. EDT Saturday, ...

The European Space Agency's e.Deorbit mission is currently working on the technology to facilitate the removal of space debris. They plan on capturing and de-orbiting a large piece of space junk in 2023, making it the fi...

Astronomers discovered a "Water World" planetary system this past April orbiting the star Kepler-62. This five-planet system has two worlds in the habitable zone -- the distance from their star at which they receive enou...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have detected two new "hot Jupiters" with a radius larger than they should have. Designated WASP-113b and WASP-114b, these exoplanets orbit their host stars located some 1,170 and 1,500 light year...

Everything in the universe is spinning. Spinning planets and their spinning moons orbit around spinning stars, which orbit spinning galaxies. It's spinning all the way down.

If the origin of life is common on other worlds, the universe should be a cosmic zoo full of complex multicellular organisms. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a Washington State University astrobiologist, uses the evolution of Earth...

An international collaboration led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) have discovered that the color of supernovae during a specific phase could be an indicator for detect...