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During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee.

A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant star systems. The post Exoplanet-Hunters Detect Two New “Warm Jupiters” appeared first on Un...

During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee....

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just n...

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests backward time travel is possible in some scenarios, but do those situations ever exist in our universe?

Forty years ago, NASA launched Voyager I and II to explore the outer solar system. The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan, while Voyager II became the first...

The Pentagon has finalized a list of exclusion zones for two types of advanced remote sensing technologies that could help end a long-running logjam for licensing of commercial systems using those techniques. SpaceNews.c...

NASA researchers say they have passed a major milestone in their quest to mature more powerful tools for directly detecting and analyzing the atmospheres of giant planets outside the solar system--one of the observationa...

An antenna-pointing error that's proving difficult to fix has prompted PT Telkom Indonesia to migrate customers off of its oldest operational satellite. SpaceNews.com

Ready to hunt for low-flying space rocks? We've got an interesting pass of a Near Earth Asteroid this upcoming U.S. Labor Day weekend one that just slides over the +10th magnitude line into binocular range. We're talking...

SpaceRef and NASAWatch editor Keith Cowing was interviewed live on China Global Television Network last night about the 5 year agreement that China and Russia have reached regarding various aspects of space exploration.....

NASA has a lot of resources providing information on Tropical Storm Harvey as it continues to drop tremendous, flooding rainfall on Texas and Louisiana....

Isolated in a giant thermal vacuum chamber, NASA's $8.6 billion next-generation observatory is riding out the worst of Hurricane Harvey

Models showing what happens to matter just before it is sucked into a black hole may need to be revised after laboratory experiments using the world's most powerful X-ray machine contradicted one of our best theories per...

"Because the interior of Mars has churned much less than Earth's in the past three billion years, Mars likely preserves evidence about rocky planets' infancy better than our home planet does," said InSight Principal Inve...

No military operation is as remote as a single destroyer operating on the open ocean, hundreds if not thousands of miles from the nearest port. Forty years ago, a U.S. Navy ship crossing the Pacific communicated by telet...

Isolated in a giant thermal vacuum chamber, NASA’s $8.6 billion next-generation observatory is riding out the worst of Hurricane Harvey --

Preparation of NASA's next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California--the first interplanetary launch in history from Ameri...

NASA is studying a "lean" architecture for Mars sample return that could allow the agency to bring back Martian rocks as soon as the end of the 2020s.

The bizarre vortex spinning at Saturn's north pole takes center stage in a newly released photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Astronomers have set a new distance record, detecting the magnetic field of a galaxy located 5 billion light-years from Earth.