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Composite image of tropical cyclones Caleb and Debbie, from 06:00 UTC on Monday 27 March 2017....

President Donald Trump lauds NASA's space exploration legacy in spirit in his weekly address here on March 25, 2017.

While most second-graders are busy learning vocabulary and arithmetic and playing soccer and video games, 7-year-old Romanieo Golphin Jr. has been bumping up his proverbial résumé.

Five NASA astronauts have been assigned to upcoming spaceflights. Joe Acaba, Ricky Arnold, Nick Hague, Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Shannon Walker all have begun training for missions launching later this year and throu...

Scientists from NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research are providing some of the first detailed views of the mechanisms that may trigger solar flares, colossal releases of magnetic energy in the Sun's corona that d...

NASA has released its popular app for a new platform, Amazon Fire TV. This version joins previous releases of the app for iOS, Android and Apple TV devices

A new air traffic control system could ensure that you spend less time flying the crowded skies --

The Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3) was robotically removed Sunday from the Tranquility module and attached to the Harmony module after being prepared during a successful spacewalk Friday. A second spacewalk is sche...

NASA officially has launched a new resource to help the public search and download out-of-this-world images, videos and audio files by keyword and metadata searches from NASA.gov.

Tropical Cyclone Debbie made landfall in Queensland bringing heavy rainfall, hurricane-force winds, rough seas, and flooding....

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the acoustic and vibration portions of environmental testing on the telescope. These tests are merely two of the ...

"This galaxy is famous because it's beautiful and very close to us, and because of what's happening inside it--it's quite extraordinary." The Sculptor Galaxy has an enormous halo of gas, dust and stars, which had not bee...

"Everybody agrees on the long term," said William LaPlante, former Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition. But getting to those goals is the hard part. SpaceNews.com

Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies. These are the first confirmed observation...

NASA is making strides toward launching its laser-based space communications systems, which officials say could become the "high-speed internet of the sky."

"Titan's extreme physical environment requires scientists to think differently about what we've learned of Earth's granular dynamics," said Josef Dufek, with the Georgia Institute of Technology. "Landforms are influenced...

The launch will be the first to use a previously flown first stage, in this case a stage that launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft last April. SpaceNews.com

(Phys.org)--A team of astronomers led by Karolina B...kowska of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Warsaw, Poland, has discovered several new outbursts in a peculiar, active dwarf nova known as MN Draconis. T...

Neuralink will aim to link the human brain to digital devices.

Long-sought features may help researchers improve models of solar activity and predict space weather --

Long-sought features may help researchers improve models of solar activity and predict space weather --

A new citizen science project, led by Associate Professor Lucy Fortson, is asking for help from the public to identify and categorize hundreds of thousands of ring patterns within images produced by VERITAS gamma-ray obs...