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A new study by scientists from UNLV indicates that astronauts going to Mars will be at an increased risk of cancer caused by exposure to radiation. The post Cancer Risk for a Human Mars Mission Just Got a Lot Worse appea...

Large asteroids may be lurking undiscovered within a meteoroid stream whose particles are hitting Earth, and scientists are urging a concentrated search for them.

After a record-shattering number of people applied for the job, the newest members of NASA's astronaut corps will be revealed today (June 7), and you can watch the big announcement live.

Today - SpaceX (SpX)-11 Ingress and Unpack: Following yesterday's successful capture, berthing, and ingress of SpX-11, today the crew began transferring payloads and cargo to the ISS....

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week has dealt another blow to the case for finding habitable planets around red dwarf stars. The post Even Calm Red Dwarf Stars Blast The...

After receiving a record-breaking number of applications to join an exciting future of space exploration, NASA has selected its largest astronaut class since 2000....

Situated about 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Earth toward the Sun, NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) maintains a constant view of the sunlit face of our planet....

After receiving a record-breaking number of applications to join an exciting future of space exploration, NASA has selected its largest astronaut class since 2000. Rising to the top of more than 18,300 applicants, NASA c...

NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, selecting seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation's next generation of spacecraft.

Long delays with programs could put the U.S. behind adversaries in the increasingly contested space environment, said Maj. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of Air Force Space Command. SpaceNews.com

A new study suggests that Mars had a much larger ocean than previously thought. However, we can't understand how the Martian climate was ever able to support such an ocean. The post Mars Had Way More Water on its Surface...

Ball Aerospace is using expertise it gained building sophisticate sensors and merging various data sets for U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies to build VizZen, a cloud-based content library and visual-data...

Earth-i's new constellation will allow customers to task the onboard imager to gather still or video imagery of targets of interest, capturing videos of 25 to 30 frames per second. SpaceNews.com

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Using seismic data and supercomputers, Rice University geophysicists have conducted a massive seismic CT scan of the upper mantle beneath the Tibetan Plateau...

Boosted by natural magnifying lenses in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured unique close-up views of the universe's brightest infrared galaxies, which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milk...

Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein's general theory of relativity....

So-called charm quarks -- ultraheavy particles that are formed in the fiery collision of gold particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- interact more with other particles than scientists previously thought.

Also known as Capricorn, this is one of the faintest constellations.

Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a close-range mission to analyze the huge asteroid Apophis, which will pass extremely close to Earth in 2029.

A phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein has been used for the first time to measure the mass of an individual star. The finding has helped settled a century-old dispute.

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The Hubble team measured the...