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There's been a whirlwind of commentary of late speculating that the acceleration of the expanding universe might not be real after all.

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A recent study by an international team of scientists looked at Project Starshot and assessed the likelihood of its success, based on several design features The post What’s the Most Stable Shape for an Interstellar Li...

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

Recent images from the Cassini space probe show that Saturn's hexagonal polar storm is changing, which may be due to seasonal variation The post If it Wasn’t Already Strange Enough, now Saturn’s Hexagon Storm is Chan...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Director of the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute. He has been a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2009 and serves as the Astrob...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the last bit of data from its 2015 flyby of Pluto.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In NASA's eyes, a record-breaking laser-communications test in 2013 was just the beginning.

Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, scientists have shed new light on the formation of a huge bull's-eye-shaped impact feature on the Moon. The findings, described in two pape...

The first total solar eclipse to go coast to coast in 99 years is now less than 10 months away, and if you haven't made any solid plans for the Aug. 21, 2017, event yet, you may have a problem.

NASA will host an agencywide event Tuesday, Nov. 1, highlighting innovation by NASA employees. NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman will discuss the importance of encouraging collaboration across the agency, and this ke...

In a conversation with "Star Trek" actor and screenwriter Simon Pegg, space station astronaut Kate Rubins said she feels like she's living in the future -- and that the iconic science fiction franchise is fairly accurate...

The sun's branch of the Milky Way is longer and more massive than scientists had previously anticipated, suggesting that it has a more significant role in the structure of the galaxy.

China Great Wall Industry Corp.'s win of a contract for a high-throughput Ka-band broadband satellite for Thailand's Thaicom is a breakthrough deal for China's satellite export industry, which up to now has relied on dom...

Sentinel-2A brings us over the snowy landscape of the Putorana Plateau in northern Central Siberia....

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and her crewmates, Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to return to Earth on Saturday, Oc...

The world's largest marine reserve aimed at protecting the pristine wilderness of Antarctica will be created after a "momentous" agreement was finally reached Friday, with Russia dropping its long-held opposition. The de...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The wispy tendrils of a long-dead star curl around a dense sphere of extraordinary power in a spooky view of the Crab Nebula.

Satellite fleet operator Intelsat on Oct. 27 said the global satellite bandwidth pricing environment appears to be stabilizing as satellite owners stop short of an all-out price war. SpaceNews.com

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 twin radar satellites combined with cloud computing are monitoring Europe's earthquake zones by searching for ground shifts as small as a millimetre.