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With multiple flights of its New Shepard vehicle under its belt, Blue Origin is appraising the research market for scientific and technological experiments that can be lofted to suborbital space.

Looking in craters for signs of Mars life may not be the biological goldmine we hoped.

To see how new rocket and aircraft designs perform under pressure, NASA's aeronautical innovators are painting model prototypes an eye-searing hot pink for wind tunnel tests in California and Virginia.

The Perseid meteor shower must have looked fantastic from 10,000 feet. That's how high you would have had to go to get past the pervasive fog and overcast skies at my home last night. Tonight looks a little better for we...

Messier 18 was discovered and catalogued in 1764 by Charles Messier -- for whom the Messier Objects are named -- during his search for comet-like objects [1]. It lies within the Milky Way, approximately 4600 light-years ...

Like cosmic ballet dancers, the stars of the Pleiades cluster are spinning. But these celestial dancers are all twirling at different speeds. Astronomers have long wondered what determines the rotation rates of these sta...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on the ground and in space have yet to find a trace of dark matter, the results are h...

Scientists are preparing to unveil a new planet in our galactic neighbourhood which is "believed to be Earth-like" and orbits its star at a distance that could favour life, German weekly Der Spiegel reported Friday.

Now available is the July 27, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Steve Jolly (Lockheed Martin) and Steve Bailey (Deep Space Systems) who discussed "Mars Science Enabled by the M...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:

The Perseid meteor shower peaked last night (Aug. 11-12), dazzling the Northern Hemisphere with shooting stars across the sky -- and Space.com readers caught some amazing photos of the spectacle.

"We have no idea why our solar system doesn't look like these others, and we would love an answer," said planetary scientist Kevin Walsh, of the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado. Since the time of Copernicus, sci...

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 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. After being quiescent for billions of years, they are re...

At a distance of 1,300 light years --just 13,000 trillion kilometers, which is close on a galactic scale--the Orion Nebula is one of the most magnificent objects in the sky. It's so luminous that you can see it by eye ev...

Our week through the lens: 8-12 August 2016

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked this week, but four daredevils were not to be outdone by the spectacular sky show. As meteors streaked across the night sky, the men jumped out of an airplane wearing LED wingsuits...

Imaging technologies show a storm in a different light.

Joakim Sommer, Armando del Rey, Marco Waltenspiel and Georg Lettner took to the skies over La Palma in the Canary Islands wearing LED wing-suits.

In this column, we'll focus on the ecliptic, the invisible racetrack that hosts the sun, moon and planets. Knowing how it works and where to find it will make you a master planet spotter -- you'll even be able to find th...