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To kick of their Summer of Mars exhibit, NASA unveiled their Mars Rover Concept Vehicle - a mobile lab specially-designed for exploring Mars! The post We’d Like One of These For Here on Earth. NASA’s New Mobile Mars ...

(Astronomy & Astrophysics) Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a series of articles on the results of the VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project. The international team, led by researchers from the University of Zagreb, obser...

This seemingly unspectacular series of dots with varying distances between them actually shows the slow waltz of two brown dwarfs....

The Expedition 52 crew of two NASA astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut is in its second week aboard the International Space Station. Also, as one station resupply ship completed its mission in space on Sunday another ...

In 2004, Burt Rutan predicted a vibrant future for commercial suborbital spaceflight. Thirteen years after SpaceShipOne nabbed the Ansari X Prize, suborbital space tourism has yet to take off. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Five years ago, on June 13, 2012, Caltech's Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NASA's NuSTAR mission, watched with her team as their black-hole-spying spacecraft...

A new study has indicated that the famous Wow! signal may have been caused by a comet, though not all are convinced with its findings The post The WOW Signal was Probably just a Comet and not a Message from an Intelligen...

One of the busiest work stations on the International Space Station got a major upgrade recently, and it already has saved dozens of hours on a variety of experiments for crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory.

For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will cross the entire nation Aug. 21. Representatives from NASA, other federal agencies, and science organizations, will provide important viewing safety, travel and ...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered new details that are helping them decipher the mystery of how giant r...

A new study led by Michael West of Lowell Observatory and Roberto De Propris of the University of Turku, Finland, reveals that the most massive galaxies in the universe have been aligned with their surroundings for at le...

While the space agency has disclosed little information about the findings, the new results from the Kepler mission are said to be 'the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds. Scientists from the Astroph...

Orbital ATK plans to resume using its Antares rocket for launches of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft later this summer, as the company continues to seek additional government and commercial customers for the launch vehicle.

A group of flatworms that recently visited the International Space Station had a few surprises to share when they returned to Earth.

This article originally appeared in the June 6, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. By all accounts, 2018 should be the year of the space tourist. Like the Chicago Cubs who endured decades of "wait until next year," credib...

Space Launch Complex 40 was damaged last September when a Falcon 9 exploded during preparations for a static fire test. SpaceNews.com

Two of the sky's more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Ne...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a series of six articles presenting the results of the VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project. Led by researchers at the University of Zagreb, the team used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Ar...

A new study led by Michael West of Lowell Observatory reveals that the most massive galaxies in the universe have been aligned with their surroundings for the past ten billion years. It is the furthest back in time that ...

An interdisciplinary team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Amsterdam's GRAPPA Center of Excellence for Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics has devised a new strategy to search for 'primordial' black h...

It looks like something out of this world, but that's exactly where it would work. A futuristic Mars rover concept vehicle was recently unveiled at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex with a goal of inspiration and ...