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NASA now is sharing its best images on official Pinterest and GIPHY accounts, providing visitors an out-of-this-world journey through animated GIFs and images of Earth and beyond.

It turns out, that famous question of "How do you go to the bathroom in space?" is not so easy to answer. At least, not when it comes to 'going' -- repeatedly -- in your spacesuit, when you may have been wearing it conti...

The great British physicist Sir Roger Penrose likes to say that the human brain is more complex than our Milky Way Galaxy. Why are we the only species that evolved to have the ability to invent the radio, scan the...  �...

The last of NASA’s original seven astronauts to die, Glenn circled the planet three times in 1962 --

John Glenn has died. The cause of death has not been announced, but he was hospitalized at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center a week ago, reportedly in declining health. He was 95. To call him an American he...

Emboldened by waning public resistance to shared defense activities across European Union member states, the European Commission is making a harder push to forge a shared government satellite communications capability fo...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the passing of Sen. John Glenn:...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the passing of Sen. John Glenn:

John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 12-16 in San Francisco. NASA-related briefings will be carried li...

The 95-year-old former astronaut and senator has been in hospital for more than a week --

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Japan is preparing to launch its sixth cargo mission to the International Space Station Friday morning. The Expedition 50 crew is training for the cargo ship's arrival while studying how living in space affects the human...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the eighth satellite of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) for the U.S. Air Force was launched from Space Launch Complex-37 last evening at 6:53 p.m. EDT....

Forget the popcorn. What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years' time, the Sun is a hundred times bigger than it is today? Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astrono...

I find some astronomical objects curious not so much in and of themselves, but also because of where they're located. Take M11, also called the Wild Duck Cluster. It's about 6,000 light years away, and it's an open (or g...

A professional astrophysicist and an amateur astronomer have teamed up to reveal surprising details about an unusual millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary system comprising one of the fastest-spinning pulsars in our Galaxy and...

Launched on 10 December 1999, XMM-Newton is an X-ray observatory designed to investigate some of the most violent phenomena in the Universe. Sources that emit large amounts of X-rays include remnants of supernova explosi...

On Nov. 19, 2016, America's most advanced weather satellite rocketed into orbit carrying six new, state--of-the-art instruments, dramatically enhanced observation capabilities, and some crucial NIST calibrations.

Since the election of Donald Trump, NASA has had its share of concerns about the future. Given the President-elect's position and past statements on climate science, there has been speculation that his presidency will cu...