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Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the mysterious electrically charg...

NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 13.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Harris CapRock Chief Financial Officer Paul Rainey has left the company to join the executive team of satellite connectivity provider Global Eagle Entertainment. SpaceNews.com

Soviet-era cosmonaut Georgy Grechko, who in 1977 performed the first spacewalk using a Russian spacesuit design still in use today on the International Space Station, has died. He was 85. Grechko flew on three missions t...

Space Science Image of the Week: This colourful Easter egg-like wrapping traces the pattern of Gaia's all-sky scanning

Astronomers led by a graduate student at the University of California, Davis have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe, and it's nothing out of the ordinary.

"We still don't really understand the process by which a star explodes as a supernova," says Ofer Yaron, with the Weizmann Institute's Particle Physics and Astrophysics team, "These findings are raising new questions, fo...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A Soyuz M-02 spacecraft with NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Roscosmos' Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko landed on April 10, 2017.

(Phys.org)--In a research paper published Apr. 3 on arXiv.org, astronomers presented a close-up view of the circumbinary disk HD 142527 obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter and submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. ...

Approach of the 2,000-foot space rock is closest for such a large object since 2004 --

As neighboring planets, Earth and Mars have a few things in common. Both are terrestrial in nature (i.e. rocky), both have tilted axes, and both orbit the sun within its circumstellar habitable zone. And during the cours...

Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut touched down safely in central Kazakhstan Monday following a 173-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA is among three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) who returned to Earth Monday, after 173 days in space, landing in Kazakhstan at approximately 7:20 a....

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA is among three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) who returned to Earth Monday, after 173 days in space, landing in Kazakhstan at approximately 7:20 a....

Are you marching for science on Earth Day, April 22? Use this guide to get ready.

Three space fliers have safely touched down on Earth after almost six months aboard the International Space Station.

New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.

The potentially transformative concepts include bioengineering microbes to prep Mars soil for farming and an interstellar spaceflight system that would harness temporary variations in objects' masses, without the need fo...

A whopper of an asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on April 19. There's no need to panic, though. NASA says it won't collide with our planet. But it will get pretty close for an asteroid of that size.