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NASA's next-generation spaceplane - the Dream Chaser - recently passed a flight test, which consisted of a glide test and automated landing. The post NASA’s Next-Generation Spaceplane Passes Free Flight Test appeared f...

Astrophysicists from MSU (Russia) and his colleagues from Italy and Russian Academy of Sciences have found the first observational evidence for a contracting white dwarf....

See Jupiter's southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this new image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft....

As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's closes its window Nov. 15 for comments on how to better allocate mid-band spectrum, Intelsat says its proposal to clear customers from portions of the satellite industry's ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: As a young scientist, Tony del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City met Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. "I thought, 'Wow, this ...

The ESO has announced the discovery of an exoplanet around a nearby "quiet" red dwarf star, which makes it more likely to be habitable The post Closest Potentially-Habitable World Found Around “Quiet” Star appeared f...

"Gravity Assist," a new NASA weekly podcast series, launches Wednesday on NASA.gov and the SoundCloud and iTunes audio platforms.

This infographic highlights the diversity of our closest stellar neighbors and the planets they host --

The gas composition of a planet's atmosphere generally determines how much heat gets trapped in the atmosphere. For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere wa...

The S.S. Gene Cernan Cygnus spacecraft named in honor of the Apollo 17 lunar landing commander and launched by Orbital ATK from the eastern shore of Virgina at breakfast time Sunday, Nov. 12, arrived at the International...

They called it a wake, but the loved one they had come to mourn wasn't a person.

The Earth-mass world orbits a dim, quiet star just 11 light-years away --

Scientists have long known that solar-energized particles trapped around the planet are sometimes scattered into Earth's upper atmosphere where they can contribute to beautiful auroral displays. Yet for decades, no one h...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Scientists have long known that solar-energized particles trapped around the planet are sometimes scattered into Earth's upper atmosphere where they can contribute to beautiful auroral...

The newfound world is the closest temperate planet known to orbit a "quiet" red dwarf star -- one that isn't prone to potentially life-obliterating bursts of radiation. Astronomers using the High Accuracy Radial velocity...

The newfound world is the closest temperate planet known to orbit a "quiet" red dwarf star -- one that isn't prone to potentially life-obliterating bursts of radiation. Astronomers using the High Accuracy Radial velocity...

Human Spaceflight image of the week: Astronauts, planetary scientists and engineers cast their shadows at the rim of a volcanic crater

The explosion, called PS1-10adi, seems to prefer active galaxies that house supermassive black holes consuming the gas and material around them. Using telescopes on La Palma and Hawaii, astronomers detected an explosion ...

The three astronauts on board -- Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee -- died. The tragedy changed the way NASA operates.

As the Juno space probe approached Jupiter in June last year, researchers with the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics' Dynamo Working Group were starting to run simulations of the giant planet's magnetic field ...

An international team of astronomers, including a University of Southampton expert, has discovered a new type of explosion in a distant galaxy.

Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to slow the spacecraft down as it e...