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A memo from a NASA transition team member proposed an "internal competition" between existing agency programs and commercial approaches. SpaceNews.com

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet's surface....

Shane Kimbrough ‏@astro_kimbrough This ball was on Challenger that fateful day. Flown by Ellison Onizuka for his daughter, a soccer player @Clear_LakeHS. #NASARemembers...

The CO2 level in Mars' primitive atmosphere 3.5 billion years ago was too low for sediments, such as those found by NASA's Curiosity exploration vehicle in areas like the Gale Crater on the planet's equator, to be deposi...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

An unusual meteorite found in Algeria in 2012 has given scientists information about volcanic activity on Mars, and it's not like anything we've ever seen on Earth. Analysis of the 6.9-ounce meteorite by an international...

Thomas Pesquet: Here is a picture I've wanted to take for a long time: Ayer's rock in Australia (also named Uluru in aboriginal). This is a sacred site, and a striking landscape. Not easy to spot from ISS, but as...

Astronomers have concluded that supermassive black holes can grow, from tidal disruption events (TDEs) and perhaps other means, at rates above those corresponding to the Eddington limit has important implications. Such r...

Snap and the BBC are bringing six exclusive episodes of Planet Earth II to Snapchat, including Islands, Mountains, Jungles, Deserts, Grasslands, and Cities -- and exclusive footage not seen on TV. The short run of mobile...

Solar-panel manufacturer SolAero Technologies is investing $10 million to expand its Albuquerque, New Mexico, facility to produce solar panels for OneWeb's constellation of 900 low-Earth-orbit telecommunciations satellit...

A giant black hole ripped apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to research led by the University of New Hampshire. This black hole meal is more than 10 times lon...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Galaxies today fall roughly into two categories: elliptically-shaped collections of reddish, old stars that formed predominantly during a period early in the history of the universe, and spiral shaped objects dominated b...

Astronomy turns up in fascinating junctures in history. Besides just the romantic angle, we can actually pin down some contextual events in ancient history if we can tie them in with an event witnessed in the heavens. Th...

A meteor over Lake Michigan lit up the sky Monday morning across several states in the Midwest.

(Phys.org)--A European team of astronomers led by Oscar Barragán of the University of Turin in Italy reports the discovery of a low-mass warm Jupiter extrasolar planet orbiting a nearby K-type main-sequence star. The ne...

The first orbit class rocket that will ever be reflown to launch a second payload to space was successfully test fired by SpaceX engineers at the firms Texas test facility last week.

The northern lights are nature's very own magnificent light show. They are the mesmerising end result of electrically charged particles from the sun colliding with the Earth's upper atmosphere. Though more frequently wit...

Not many people get excited about a penumbral eclipse, but when it's a deep one and the only lunar eclipse visible in North America this year, it's worth a closer look. What's more, this Friday's eclipse happens during c...

The NASA Glenn Research Center is developing the next generation of Stirling Radioisotope Generators (SRGs) to power deep space science missions. One potential technology gap is the waste heat rejection approach for high...

A new spacesuit system to flush away "space poop" will likely fly on the first crewed Orion spacecraft flight, NASA said in an interview with Space.com.