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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday released a set of images depicting the capsule his company is developing to launch passengers on its New Shepard suborbital spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Students from Betsy Ross Elementary School in Anaheim, California, will speak with NASA astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station at 11:40 a.m. EDT Monday, April 3.

NASA is working to forever change the way astronauts communicate to and from space using an advanced laser communications system called LEMNOS, which will enable exponentially faster connections than ever before.

NASA has awarded an architect and engineering services contract to Accura Rosser 8(a) JV of Atlanta to perform engineering design and inspection services at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabam...

Earlier this month, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reached an important milestone by opening its "second eye on the sky" - a new instrument called the "APOGEE South spectrograph."

For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant Jupiter and with about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet's space, says a...

Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a problematic structure.

Every so often the sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and often wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems. When clouds of high-speed charged particles come rac...

For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant Jupiter and with about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet's space, says a...

Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017, manned missions to Mars are closer to reality than ever before.

Public-private partnerships mayboost available nuclear fuel for space exploration --

The United Kingdom's would-be launch service providers -- a mix of British startups and international primes -- told Parliament this week the country's goal of seeing a first launch from within its borders by 2020 is at ...

Asteroid 2015 BZ509 is the only known space rock in the solar system to travel in a retrograde orbit "while at the same time sharing a planet's orbital space," according to Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontar...

As humanity hurtles through space and time toward the July 2017 release date of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," a new teaser trailer has arrived to build anticipation for the science fiction blockbuster.

The film hits theaters in July 2017.

From power-supply issues to skin-protection concerns, the winners of NASA's Space Poop Challenge discussed all the details of their innovative spacesuit waste-disposal systems designed to help solve NASA's astronaut pott...

"There are plenty of indications of the need to go beyond the standard model, but not necessarily through the sort of thing they do at CERN" Peter Higgs told New Scientist. "The discoveries in neutrino physics about neut...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos provided a sneak peek today into the interior of the New Shepard crew capsule, the suborbital vehicle for space tourism. He released a few images which illustrate what the flight experience...

A new map puts Antarctica into three-dimensional perspective with an aerial view of the continent's ice, created from 250 million satellite measurements.

Two of the world's first reusable rockets will soon go on display in California. Orbital ATK formally declared its donation of two rockets as SpaceX stands poised for its first Falcon 9 stage re-flight.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Every so often the sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and often wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems. When cl...