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The gas giant formed out of the dust cloud known as the solar nebula.

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Boron has been identified for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the ancient past....

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Monday's (Dec. 12) planned launch of NASA's innovative Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) hurricane microsatellite fleet was aborted when a pump in the hydraulic system that re...

HD 163296 is a very young star about 400 light years from Earth. That's pretty close as these kinds of objects go, making it a ripe target for astronomers to observe. And by young I do mean young; it's only about four mi...

NASA's "Exo-Brake" will demonstrate a critical technology leading to the potential return of science payloads to Earth from the International Space Station through the deployment of small spacecraft in early 2017....

(Phys.org)--Using the gravitational microlensing method, an international team of astronomers has recently detected a new gas giant exoplanet three times more massive than Jupiter. The newly discovered planet received de...

Space experts weigh in on whether or not Star Wars' most infamous weapon could really be constructed and blow up planets.

Parts of Mars were capable of supporting life as we know it for lengthy stretches in the ancient past -- perhaps hundreds of millions of years at a time, new observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity suggest.

This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming a 'string of pearls' on Jupiter -- massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals i...

The icy bodies are fast, wild and and can “come out of nowhere,” unlike many asteroids --

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New samples obtained by the Curiosity rover have shed more light on environmental changes over the past few billion years, offering more evidence in support of it being habitable. The post Martian Mineral Point Towards P...

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have used the ALMA telescopes to observe the early stages in the formation of a new solar system. For the first time they have seen how a powerful whirlwind shoot out from the ro...

This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming a 'string of pearls on Jupiter--massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals in t...

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA shared this photograph of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-6) as it approached the International Space Station on Dec. 12, 2016...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Launching Americans back to space and the International Space Station (ISS) from American soil on American rockets via NASA's commercial crew program (CCP) has just suffered another significant...

A bag used to collect lunar samples during the first manned mission to the moon legally belongs to an Illinois woman who bought it for $995 when it was mistakenly sold during a government auction, a judge ruled Wednesday...

Being an astronaut takes teamwork, resiliency, a strong awareness of self and others, and perseverance - skills that also are necessary to succeed in life. So, NASA and 4-H are teaming up to help students develop these l...

A side view of our spaceship. At the base of the solar arrays, a few white boxes: the batteries we're in charge of replacing in January....

Imagery and an animation of infrared imagery from the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed the movement of cold, Arctic air over the U.S. from Dec. 1 to Dec. 11....