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Approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, there is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714) that doesn't look quite like anything astronomers have observed before. New research provides a first descript...

NASA is sending an African-American astronaut to the International Space Station for the first time.

About 150 hours of observing time on the 1,000-ft radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico over the course of the last several years have been devoted to determining whether the most fundamental constant...

Using a model similar to what meteorologists use to forecast weather on Earth and a computer simulation of the physics of evaporating ices, a new study published in the journal, Nature by York University's Professor John...

NASA has selected a mission that will perform the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. The Lucy mission will launch in 2021 to study six of these excit...

Pinpointing a source for "fast radio bursts" brings scientists one step closer to solving a cosmic mystery --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The far side of Earth's moon, site of the Solar System's largest impact crater, has long been shrouded in darkness and mystery. That is soon to change with launch of China's Chang'e-4 probe -- named for the goddess of th...

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light y...

NASA Breaking News:

Now available is the December 21, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Steve Collicott (Purdue University) who presented "Research and Education Missions on the New Commercial Sub...

Most galaxies are spirals (like our own Milky Way) or elliptical, lacking the spectacular spiral arms. Recently, astronomers mapped the rarest type galaxy ever: an elliptical galaxy sporting rings of young stars.

The launch of the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft, once set to take place this month, has been delayed again because of technical issues, this time until no earlier than July. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In a remarkable demonstration of robotic prowess, ground controllers used the Canadian-built "Dextre" Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator over the weekend to install three new lithium-ion batteries in the International...

NASA is assigning veteran astronaut Andrew Feustel and first-flight astronaut Jeanette Epps to missions aboard the International Space Station in 2018.

Teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, facing an end-of-the-year deadline to obtain a verified launch contract, may not know until some time in January if they will be able to continue in their race to the moon.

NASA will announce today its choice for one or two of its next big robotic missions which were proposed under the agency's Discovery program that could send a spacecraft to Venus, asteroids or on a hunt for possibly dang...

Approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, there is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714) that doesn't look quite like anything astronomers have observed before. New research provides a first descript...

The agency will order four additional flights from each company, bring the number of missions ordered from each to six. SpaceNews.com

India will launch a rocket carrying 103 satellites next month in a record single mission, a report said Wednesday, as its famously frugal space agency looks to zoom ahead in the commercial space race.

NASA needs to get out of the rocket business and start doing what it's uniquely qualified for --