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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Get ready for the "Great American total solar eclipse" of August 21, 2017 with this photo guide containing paths, viewing maps and more.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today's stars were born. To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/subm...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

(ESA/Hubble Information Centre) The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this. This glowing pink nebula, named NGC 248, is located in the Smal...

(Australian National University) The Australian National University is part of an international team of astronomers that found one of the Universe's biggest superclusters of galaxies near the Milky Way. The Vela superclu...

Optical atomic clocks could detect planet-size flaws in a field that might help explain dark matter --

A new study using a NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth has found that small, environmental changes in polar food webs significantly influence the boom-and-bust, or peak and decline, cycles of phytoplankton.

For the first time, physicists have shown that atoms of antimatter appear to give off the same kind of light that atoms of regular matter do when illuminated with lasers, a new study finds.

Team Hakuto, a Japanese group competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, announced Dec. 20 it has a verified contract to fly its rover on another team's lander in 2017 after its initial partner dropped out of the competitio...

The new space flick "Passengers" takes place in a far-off, science-fiction future, but two real-world scientists recently spoke about how modern-day science is laying the groundwork to turn some of those fictional elemen...

Yale researchers have found a data-driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth.

Norwegian researchers are looking into how a snake robot might carry out maintenance work on the International Space Station (ISS), study comets, and explore the possibility of living and working in lava tunnels on the M...

The death of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has led a historian who wrote a biography of the astronaut to share a new look at one of the space pioneer's most harrowing moments. Andrew Chaikin posted film ...

When you cover space and astronomy news as Nancy Atkinson and I do, you usually find yourself focusing on launch dates, destinations, and science....

Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape....

It may look as though Saturn's moon Mimas is crashing through the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but Mimas is actually 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) away from the rings....

(Yale University) Yale researchers have found a data-driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth.The new approach relies on mathematical methods that have their foundations in p...

A new study details simulations that suggest that Proxima b could support life, assuming it has a magnetic field and a dense enough atmosphere. The post New Study Says Proxima b Could Support Life appeared first on Unive...

Japan's Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace spacecraft, or ERG, lifted off today (Dec. 20) to help scientists better understand the high-energy particles zooming near Earth.

A US-German team of researchers has proposed developing a micro-scale, low-cost surface lander for the in situ characterization of an asteroid. The tiny spacecraft, called the Pico Autonomous Near-Earth Asteroid In Situ ...