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NASA will kick off a yearlong centennial celebration for its Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, with events Thursday, Dec. 1 highlighting the critical work done by the African American women of Langley's West ...

It's an intricate process through which massive stars lose their gas as they evolve, and a more complete understanding could be just calculations away--if only those calculations didn't take several millennia to run on n...

(Phys.org)--The spiral galaxy NGC 5523 is believed to be an example of an isolated galaxy whose evolution was not influenced by other objects. However, a new study conducted by U.S. astronomers shows that the isolation o...

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. Launch is targeted for April 2021 on a Sp...

Upon departing the ISS after a month-long stay, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 mission began conducting a controlled fire experiment... in space! The post The Fire In Orbit This Time… Again appeared first on Universe Today.

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin has determined u...

Turkey and football will be the main Thanksgiving headliners up on the International Space Station.

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined....

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NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, who are targeted to launch to the International Space Station in March, will participate in a news conference at 2 p.m. E...

Expedition 50 robotic arm operators Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) commanded the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the Cygnus spacecraft at 8:22 a.m...

A new multi-institutional study of the temporary slowdown in the global average surface temperature warming trend observed between 1998 and 2013 concludes the phenomenon represented a redistribution of energy within the ...

The Texas A&M Space Food Research Facility prepared the meals that will be gobbled up by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Food scientist Ben O'Neill, chancellor John Sharp and fmr. NASA astronaut/profes...

An inflatable space habitat that could save weight and volume on future missions is showing how well it can do its job.

Square Kilometer Array: His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima during their State visit to Australia, outside the John Curtin Ministerial Library. Credit: ASTRON Perth, Australia, Wednesday 11 No...

A team of researchers, led by University of California, Riverside astronomers, found for the first time a large population of distant dwarf galaxies that could reveal important details about a productive period of star f...

In last night's (Nov. 21) episode of "Mars," the National Geographic Channel's six-part docudrama, five crewmembers fight for their lives after landing on the Red Planet. Here's what went down in the new episode of "Mars...

The "First Doll in Space" is getting her own spacesuit. "Stargazer Lottie," a doll made by the Irish toy company Arklu, spent 264 days aboard the International Space Station -- and now she's getting an astronaut outfit.

For multi-week missions in a confined space, NASA Orion planners have to be creative with how much food they can send with astronauts. Food scientist Takiyah Sirmons and Orion's deputy health and medical technical author...

International Space Station commander Shane Kimbrough explains how the crew will spend the holiday.