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NASA expects to make a decision within the next two months whether to keep the Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the largest body in the main asteroid belt or have it fly past another asteroid.

The Rho Ophiuchi nebular complex is a beautiful, multicolored cloud of cosmic gas and dust and one of the closest stellar nurseries to the solar system. It's also one of the most-photographed objects in the night sky.

A new high-resolution image of Saturn's moon Epimetheus' reveals a long history of meteor collisions.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: On July 10, researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, will attempt to study the environment around a distant Kuiper Belt Object, 2...

Hubble Pushed Beyond Limits to Spot Clumps of New Stars in Distant Galaxy...

Planets in the outer solar system and terrestrial microbes in unexpected places --

Some 800,000 years ago, a magnetic compass' needle would have pointed south because the Earth's magnetic field was reversed. These reversals typically happen every several hundred thousand years. The geomagnetic field is...