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NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. Another--definitely a comet--might be seen with binoc...

The space community waited for weeks for the transition to name its "landing team" for the agency while rosters for the teams handling other departments filled up. SpaceNews.com

NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. Another--definitely a comet--might be seen with binoc...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

She wasn't even convinced it existed --

Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) made its first payments to the satellite manufacturing team building its next two satellites on Dec. 28, the state-owned satellite operator announced. SpaceNews.com

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presents a highlight reel of missions, technology and events they are working on in 2017.

The night after the winter solstice, the skies over northern Canada were alight with the aurora borealis.

As the administration of President-elect Donald Trump kicks into high-gear, the future of the country's civil and military activities in space is on the table.

This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most--it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way. ...

In 2011, international team of microbiologists of the Microbiology of Extreme Environments Laboratory in partnership with the Institute of Oceanography of Xiamen (China) and the Earth Science Laboratory discovered a new ...

NASA's chief scientist is leaving the agency after more than three years on the job, as NASA refreshes the leadership of its science programs. SpaceNews.com

Sunlight truly has come to Saturn's north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from late 2016, feeble though the light may be at Saturn's distant domain in the solar system.

Martian seasonal winds blow the dust off to expose bright colors --

Amid rumors and what-if scenarios, NASA tells researchers to "be a source of signal, not a source of noise."

Today: Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Prep: The crew reviewed procedures for the upcoming S4 Battery EVA....

The Progress MS-04 spacecraft was lost during a Dec. 1 launch to the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

Her death on Christmas Day at the age of 88reminds us that she played a crucial role in three of the field'skey transitions --

(Phys.org)--An international team of researchers reports the discovery of a series of concentric rings in the debris disk around a young nearby star known as HIP 73145. These unusual substructures could provide new detai...

My friend (and evil twin) Richard Wiseman is a staple here at BA HQ; he studies how our brains can be tricked into perceiving things that aren't real... or missing things that really are there. His latest entry into ence...

The darkening of a mysterious star, which might be due to "alien megastructures," according to some researchers' theories, might instead be due to avalanche-like magnetic activity within the star, a new study finds.

Mars may appear red when viewed from Earth, but NASA's Curiosity rover has captured an up-close photo of the planet's mountainous landscape, and there are purple-colored rocks littered across the foreground.