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China is planning to build an enormous particle accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN's Large Hadron Collider, according to state media reports. According to China Daily, the new facility will be...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk's daring dream of rocket recycling and reusability is getting closer and closer to reality with each passing day. After a breathtaking series of experimental flight tests aimed at safely landing ...

A gigantic ribbon of hot gas bursts upwards from the Sun, guided by a giant loop of invisible magnetism. This remarkable image was captured on 27 July 1999 by SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Earth is superi...

At the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, NASA is preparing tiny satellites the size of briefcases for a mission to Mars.

Today: Body Measures Operations: Two crewmembers, one as the subject and the other providing operator assistance, completed a Body Measures data collection session that began last week....

Now available is the June 22, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Gary Barnhard of Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc. (XISP-Inc) who discussed "Near Real-Time State...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Patricia Sanders as chair of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress on matters concerning the agency's safety perfo...

Media will have an opportunity to photograph NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft and interview mission officials at 8 a.m. EDT Saturday, Au...

The universe is 13.8 billion years old, while our planet formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Some scientists think this time gap means that life on other planets could be billions of years older than ours. However, new th...

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: University of Athens Observatory - Public Outreach Since 2000 the University of Athens Observatory (UOAO) has maintained the goal of making astronomy accessible to the public and stude...

It happens a few times every year. Last week, we poured our morning coffee, powered up our laptop and phone, and prepared to engage the day. It wasn't long before the messages started pouring in. 'Bright fireball over th...

The universe is 13.8 billion years old, while our planet formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Some scientists think this time gap means that life on other planets could be billions of years older than ours. However, new th...

How to spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the and the annual Perseid meteor shower....

The universe is 13.8 billion years old, while our planet formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Some scientists think this time gap means that life on other planets could be billions of years older than ours. However, new th...

Reid Wiseman is back on the surface of the Earth. As a NASA astronaut Wiseman spent 165 days on the International Space Station. His latest landfall though, was not from orbit, but from under the ocean.

Push to resurrect instrument lost during satellite failure highlights JAXA’s resilience --

In the first few minutes following "the big bang," the universe quickly began expanding and cooling, allowing the formation of subatomic particles that joined forces to become protons and neutrons. These particles then b...

Russian plans to send a lander to Ganymede, the Laplace mission, and an orbiter to Mercury. This video from the Russian space agency ROSCOMOS provides an update on the missions....

"There is a powerful analogy between the Earth's first mass extinction and what is happening today," said Simon Darroch, at Vanderbilt University. "The end-Ediacaran extinction shows that the evolution of new behaviors c...

A key feature of the James Webb Space Telescope is helping to shed light on what goes on underneath boats in stormy weather and around the structures of offshore oilrigs.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Find out where to find the planets' Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune in the night sky. Dwarf planets' Pluto and Ceres are also visible with the aid of telescopes. The Perseid Meteor shower peaks ...