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Very detailed Gemini Observatory images peel back Jupiter's atmospheric layers to support the NASA/JPL Juno spacecraft in its quest to understand the giant planet's atmosphere.

PORT CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The launch cadence at Elon Musk's SpaceX is truly ramping up with Falcon 9 boosters rapidly coming and going in all directions from ground to space as the firm audaciously sets i...

Due to a forecast of unacceptable sea states in the Pacific Ocean in the prime opportunity splashdown zone, SpaceX and NASA have elected to delay the return of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to Monday, July 3....

China is preparing to launch a powerful rocket on Sunday as the country presses on with its ambitious space program.

To most cosmologists, the most plausible explanation for that uniformity of the cosmos is that, soon after the beginning of time, some unknown form of energy made the young Universe inflate at a rate that was faster than...

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on June 30 to reestablish the National Space Council. To mark International Asteroid Day on June 30, we aired a special television program with information about the work ...

Our species first up-close and personal view of Jupiter's colossal Red Spot -- a 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm monitored since 1830, existing for more than 350 years will occur via the Juno Space Telesco...

The countdown clock in NASA Mission Control shows 79 days until the end of the Cassini Mission. One of the best things about Cassini is that its on-board science instruments can be fine-tuned. The Cosmic Dust Analyzer's ...

Two galaxies are merging in the Arp 299 system. Astronomers have discovered 14 "ultra-luminous X-ray sources," though Chandra observations of the system.

A tiny satellite that reached orbit last week will make history when it comes back down to Earth later this summer.

NASA's Quiet Supersonic Transport aircraft passed a preliminary design review last week, marking a major milestone for the agency's experimental X-plane concept.

High-resolution imaging of Jupiter by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea is informing the Juno mission of compelling events in Jupiter's atmosphere....

On the first day of the year 1801, Italian astronomer Gioacchino Giuseppe Maria Ubaldo Nicolò Piazzi found a previously uncharted "tiny star" near the constellation of Taurus. The following night Piazzi again observed t...