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The "worm" is back at NASA, sort of. Twenty-five years after the agency unceremoniously retired the iconic logotype, the retro logo has fallen back into NASA's good graces, at least when it comes to new merchandise.

In the space of just 3 days, a pair of NASA astronauts conducted an unplanned and rapidly executed contingency space walk on the exterior of the space station on Tuesday, May 23 in order to replace a critical computer un...

Thomas Pesquet: When art supports science. Venice is one of the many cities that will suffer from sea-level rising #BiennaleArte2017...

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its eleventh commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for 5:55 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 1. Launch coverage will begin on NASA Television an...

SpaceX moved the launch date for the second Iridium Next mission ahead by four days thanks to new range availability at Vandenberg Air Force Base, mobile satellite service provider Iridium announced today. SpaceNews.com

Tabby's Star is dimming again, and two new studies have been released that offer new and interesting theories on what could be causing it. The post New Ideas for the Mysterious Tabby’s Star: a Gigantic Planet or a Plan...

New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter's weather and magnetic fields by University of Leicester astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter...

Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic moon Io and interaction with the solar wind.

Air Force leaders didn't definitively say if they'll cut off funding, but said they're more interested in launch services than engines. SpaceNews.com

I’m getting psyched for Psyche, which is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter and NASA’s mission to the asteroid. Part of the reason for this excitement comes from learning today tha...

Plumes of ammonia and quirky magnetic fields are among the surprises from the spacecraft’s first science results --

"What we've learned so far is earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering," said Bolton, Juno's principal investigator. "Discoveries about its core, composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the ...

NASA's Juno mission, led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Scott Bolton, is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about Jupiter specifically, and gas giants in general, according to a pair of Science papers rel...

Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. It took the combined power of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to go looking for rem...

A new study from a team of British and French physicists presents a concept for plasma thrusters that are both lighter and more energy-efficient. The post New Way to Make Plasma Propulsion Lighter and More Efficient appe...

WASHINGTON -- To maximize the capacity from its soon-to-launch ViaSat-2 high-throughput satellite, ViaSat intends to deploy twice as many ground stations as it did for ViaSat-1. For its forthcoming trio of ViaSat-3-serie...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A ring of icy debris in a young, nearby planetary system resembles comets found in our own solar system, new images reveal.

Galileo was the first space probe to spend years observing the planet Jupiter and its moons

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of unknown origin that were discovered by pulsar astronomers in 2007. A decade on from the discovery, with only 20 further bursts currently known, fast radio bursts remai...

The spacecraft, a landing technology demonstrator, flew to Mars on the ExoMars 2016 mission, but crashed when it prematurely shut down its thrusters. SpaceNews.com

While there are hundreds of ways to celebrate the movie's special anniversary, below we're listing two of our favorite.