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NASA's newly arrived Jovian orbiter Juno has transmitted its first imagery since reaching orbit last week on July 4 after swooping over Jupiter's cloud tops and powering back up its package of state-of-the-art science in...

Ever since they were first produced, carbon nanotubes have managed to set off a flurry excitement in the scientific community. With applications ranging from water treatment and electronics, to biomedicine and constructi...

NASA's first mission to "touch" the sun has passed a critical development milestone that keeps it well on track toward its scheduled summer 2018 launch.

NASA Breaking News:

SETI Institute:

A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies....

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of the next Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers, including those from Berkeley Lab, have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

In July 2016, the Sun presented us a 'face' which consisted of two active regions and a low-density area, called a coronal hole. Multiple wavelength imagery from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory from July 12-14 are pres...

We are now less than a month away from the peak of the annual summertime display of shooting stars known as the Perseid meteor shower -- and this year's promises to be even more spectacular than usual.

Astronomers announced this week the sharpest results yet on the properties of dark energy. Hundreds of scientists, among them Marcos Pellejero Ibañez and Jose Alberto Rubiño from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canari...

When SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule lifts off early Monday morning (July 18) to take supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), it will carry a vital piece of hardware in its trunk: the first of two Internationa...

A big advantage to our civilization arising early in the evolution of the universe is our being able to use powerful telescopes like Hubble to trace our lineage from the big bang through the early evolution of galaxies. ...

An international team of astronomers has created the largest ever three-dimensional map of distant galaxies in a bid to help them understand one of the most mysterious forces in the universe.

As if it were one of the known Russian dolls, a group of astronomers, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, (IAC) has found the first known case of three supernova remnants one inside the other...

Astronomers from KU Leuven, Belgium, have shown that the interaction between the surface and the atmosphere of an exoplanet has major consequences for the temperature on the planet. This temperature, in turn, is a crucia...

The Expedition 48 crew is getting ready for next week's arrival of a pair resupply ships. The station residents are also continuing space research benefitting life on Earth and future crews....

For thousand of years, astronomers and astrologers believed that the Earth was at the center of our Universe. This perception was due in part to the fact that Earth-based observations were complicated by the fact that th...

One year ago today, on July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft shot past Pluto and its system of weird moons, making space history (and the history of the mission itself is great reading). It was the first time a prob...

Final preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a Sept. 15 launch.

NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have opened a new environmental monitoring program in West Africa that will enhance the role of space-based observations in the management of climate-sensiti...