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The best robot kit for younger kids, Lego Boost turns programming into a game your child will want to play.

The first two missions of the unmanned Dream Chaser mini-shuttle carrying critical cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA will fly on the most powerful version of the Atlas V rocket and start as soon as ...

The video is grainy and the sound is scratchy. However, "Clap Sounds of Northern Lights?" is No. 1 on Aalto's YouTube channel with almost a quarter-million views.

Keck Observatory:

Scientific research at Kennedy Space Center could mean some loud booms along Canaveral National Seashore on Space Coast between New Smyrna Beach and Titusville next month, NASA officials said.

It looks like an ordinary Nebraska cornfield, but Louis Dorland sees something more: an ideal place to observe the Great American Eclipse.

As part of NASA's NextSTEP-2 program, Lockheed Martin was recently awarded a Phase II contract to continue work on their Deep Space Habitat prototype. The post Ready to Leave Low Earth Orbit? Prototype Construction Begin...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

Satellite fleet operator Telesat, whose first two low-Earth orbit satellites launch later this year, says latency was the critical factor in deciding to invest in a high-throughput, non-geosynchronous constellation. Spac...

Sometimes the best solution to a complex problem is the simplest one. That's the approach that the Capillary Structures for Exploration Life Support (Capillary Structures) team took when designing the fluid physics inves...

"These could well turn out to be the best ever observations of high frequency phenomena in the corona," says Dan Seaton, co-investigator of the project and researcher at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. "...

In June 2016, an international team of 31 astronomers, led by the University of Maryland's Eleanora Troja and including Arizona State University's Nathaniel Butler, caught a massive star as it died in a titanic explosion...

The Aerojete Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine for NASA's future megarocket, the Space Launch System, was test-fired for 8.5 minutes on Tuesday (July 25).

The catchphrase "bazinga" -- a zinger commonly uttered by Dr. Sheldon Cooper, a fictional theoretical physicist on the TV show "The Big Bang Theory" -- has inspired the creation of a novel compound.

NASA successfully tested an engine with a new computer that will be used on the Space Launch System. The static-fire test of the RS-25 engine, which took place at the Stennis Space Center, was the third such test of a ne...

Breakthrough Starshot, a multi-faceted program to develop and launch practical interstellar space missions, successfully flew its first spacecraft -- the smallest ever launched....

One of the effects of living in space is the tendency of fluids to shift upward towards an astronaut's head. This results in the common "puffy face" appearance astronauts experience when they escape Earth's gravity. Howe...

Ariane 6 launch facilities are under construction in French Guiana along the Vega rocket is getting a n will increase the capabilities of the the space agency and European launch industry.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: Things look different on the Moon. Literally. Because the Moon isn't big enough to hold a significant atmosphere, there is no air and there are no particles in the air to re...

Despite technical glitches and regulatory hurdles, nanosatellite swarms could someday be the cornerstone for revolutionary interplanetary or even interstellar space-science missions --

Set phasers to "Wow!" Check out these awesome new "Star Trek: Discovery" posters and sneak-peek photos from the new Trek series unveiled at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con!

Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped by a "residual echo" from our ancient past. The ...