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Researchers at the University of Maryland and Michigan Technological University have operated a tiny proposed satellite ion rocket under a microscope to see how it works....

NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite spotted Tropical Storm Omais just off-shore, and east of the big island of Japan.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

This summer in Chicago, from August 3rd until the 10th, theorists and experimental physicists from around the world will be participating in the International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP). One of the highlig...

"Tabby's Star" has dramatically dimmed and we don't know why.

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, science has been conducting a diligent search for a hypothesized particle known as the "sterile neutrino." If discovered, the sterile neutrino...

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, science has been conducting a diligent search for a hypothesized particle known as the "sterile neutrino."

Ending 16 days underwater to simulate a space mission

Construction of NASA's Dellingr CubeSat - a miniature satellite that provides a low-cost platform for missions - is complete, and the satellite has just left the lab for environmental testing. This is a key step after an...

An instrument called the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which is buried deep under ice in Antarctica, has come up empty in the search of the theoretical particle. Neutrinos and the result are explained by the IceCube team...

Rosetta celebrates two incredible years at the comet

On July 24, 2016, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden flash of bright light on the solar limb - the horizon of the sun - as seen at the beginning of this vide...

Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca (The Fly), this tightly packed collection of stars--known as a globular cluster--goes by the name of NGC 4833. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telesc...

Forget Rome. Ignore Madrid. Overlook tropical islands. Cash in your frequent flier miles and book a cruise to far-flung, exotic exoplanets.

During a scheduled contact with NASA's Kepler space telescope on Thursday, July 28, the team found the photometer--the camera onboard the spacecraft--powered off. The photometer was turned on again and the flight system ...

Two NASA astronauts are readying their spacesuits and gear ahead of an Aug. 19 spacewalk. More life science, including heart and DNA research, continued Friday. Finally, tiny internal satellites were tested before next w...

(Phys.org)--China's Chang'e-3 mission landed on the moon in December 2013 and deployed a lunar rover known as Yutu or Jade Rabbit; it also carried a robotic telescope designed to observe various celestial objects such as...

A small white bag that was used by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong to hold the first lunar samples collected from the surface of the moon is at the center of not one, but two lawsuits over who owns it today.

Last week I wrote about a senior Republican congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn, who not only denies climate change is real but made the bizarre statement that the Earth is actually cooling. I know, right? But not to be outd...

Scientists in their preliminary findings suggest signs of life from under Mars' surface may not survive in rocks excavated by some meteorite impacts.

In 1999 astronomers focusing on a star at the center of the Milky Way, measured precisely how long it takes the sun to complete one orbit (a galactic year) of our home galaxy: 226 million years. The last time the...

Two NASA satellites peering out over the Greenland ice sheet have helped researchers map areas thousands of meters beneath the thick, icy surface. This map is the first of its kind and researchers say it will help better...