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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL- Think a Holodeck adventure on Star Trek guided by real life Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and you'll get a really good idea of what's in store for you as you explore the surfa...

Researchers have detected two massive holes which have been 'punched' through a stream of stars just outside the Milky Way, and found that they were likely caused by clumps of dark matter, the invisible substance which h...

NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016....

On Saturday, September 17th, the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) stated that it would be delaying the launch of the crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-02. The rocket was scheduled to launch on Friday, September 23rd, and would ...

NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency's Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.

The puzzling appearance of an ice cloud seemingly out of thin air has prompted NASA scientists to suggest that a different process than previously thought -- possibly similar to one seen over Earth's poles -- could be fo...

Now available is the September 7, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Mark Lupisella, Jack Bleacher and Michael Wright of NASA GSFC who discussed "Low-Latency Teleoperations fo...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The occultation of stellar active regions during the planetary transit[1] can lead to inaccurate estimates of the characteristics of these exoplanets, especially the spin-orbit tilt angle....

Next-generation space weather model will map the danger facing power grids --

Supermassive black holes have an incredibly strong gravitational pull that swallows anything that gets too close, including stars. When this happens, the black hole spits out a bright flare of energy that "echoes" throug...

For more than 50 years, Star Trek has inspired us to pursue knowledge, create new technologies, and boldly go toward a better future for humanity. To celebrate Star Trek's recent 50th anniversary, Canada's Perimeter Inst...

The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved by an international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope along with the NASA/ES...

NASA's first space shuttle launch, 35 years ago, demonstrated a winged orbiter could lift off like a rocket and land like a plane, able to fly again. That first mission also cleared a hurdle for the flights that followed...

NASA's CORAL mission is currently taking aerial observations of Australia's Great Barrier reef as part of an effort to learn more about reef degradation around the globe.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Alarms are being raised over the recent advancements in a new DARPA-funded technology known as "electroceuticals," with the possibility that dark forces could be unleashed in a world where millions have hundreds of tiny ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

The Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on the eastern shore of Virginia. The site can send off interplanetary and International Space Station missions.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Recreating a martian dust storm

Teleportation has largely been the realm of science fiction and Star Trek plots. Now, Chinese and Canadian scientists say they have successfully carried out a form of teleportation at the quantum level across an entire c...