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The 'Return to Flight' launch of Orbital ATK's Antares rocket on a cargo resupply launch for NASA bound for the space station has been postponed for at least another month into September due to the need for further analy...

Lie on the beach this summer and your body will be bombarded by about sextillion photons of light per second.

How do you study the topography of an asteroid millions of miles away? Map it with a robotic cartographer!

Researchers who are looking for new ways to probe the nature of gravity and dark energy in the universe have adopted a new strategy: looking at what's not there.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered two tiny dwarf galaxies that have wandered from a vast cosmic wilderness into a nearby "big city" packed with galaxies....

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Now available is the July 20, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Tony Cofer (Purdue) who discussed "The Film Evaporation MEMS Tunable Water Microthruster Array"....

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Go...

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Go...

Here's what to expect from US weather for the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks overnight tonight (Aug. 11-12).

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Go...

Before Scott Kelly touched down after nearly a year on the space station, he helped kick off a year-long countdown to Super Bowl LI. Now on the ground, Kelly is set to hand off the flown football to the head of the Houst...

This past January NASA released an up-close image (shown below) of what may be one of the strangest features on Pluto: a massive volcano that spewed ice instead of lava. "This feature is enormous," NASA said on its websi...

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Go...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Schiaparelli, the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module of the joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission, will target the Meridiani Planum region for its October landing, as seen in this mosaic created from Mars ...

I don't usually write about observations that haven't been done yet, but this is so interesting I wanted to tell y'all about it. Next year, due to a quirk of geometry, it'll be possible for astronomers to search for moon...

A pair of astronauts tried on U.S. spacesuits this morning ahead of a spacewalk next week. Afterward, the crew explored heart cells, fluid pressure in the head and the eyes and the composition of meteors....

Many years ago, Carl Sagan predicted there could be as many as 10,000 advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.

Titan's canyons are generally less than 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) wide, but up to 1,870 feet (570 meters) deep and feature slopes that are 40 degrees steep, a new study suggests.

The Earth has one steadfast companion - the moon has been locked in orbit around the Earth since its violent formation more than four billion years ago.