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New Horizons: NASA is extending the campaign to find a temporary tag for the next flyby target of its New Horizons mission, giving the public until midnight Eastern Time on Dec. 6 to continue to help select a nickname fo...

Laboratory experiments on Earth can now simulate the conditions under which life might emerge on Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other icy alien worlds, according to new research published in the September 2017 issue...

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA ...

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA ...

According to a new study by an international team of scientists, the widespread use of LED lights could be bad for the environment. The post Oops, low energy LEDs are increasing light pollution appeared first on Universe...

The businessman nominated by the White House to be the next administrator of NOAA said Nov. 29 it will be a priority for him to maintain the agency's network of weather satellites. SpaceNews.com

Building a new mobile launch platform for later Space Launch System missions could cost NASA $300 million but allow for more frequent launches, agency officials said. SpaceNews.com

Using the Juno mission's orbit of Jupiter, a team of scientists has developed a possible explanation for the long-standing "flyby anomaly" The post Juno Isn’t Exactly Where it’s Supposed To Be. The Flyby Anomaly is B...

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years.....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecr...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or Webb, emerged from Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 1 to prepare for its upcoming move to California.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or Webb, emerged from Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 1 to prepare for its upcoming move to California.

The dust that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko emits into space consists to about one half of organic molecules. The dust belongs to the most pristine and carbon-rich material known in our solar system and has hardly chan...

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 1:20 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 8.

As the National Security Space community implements resiliency and disaggregation, and as we take advantage of the rapid acceleration of technology, it appears we are moving toward smaller, shorter life, and more numerou...

Yeah, we're still all waiting for that next great "Comet of the Century" to make its presence known. In the meantime, we've had a steady stream of good binocular comets over the past year both expected and new, including...

A briny pond in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys could be receiving its water from an underground aquifer, in conditions not dissimilar to those found on the Red Planet.

Laboratory experiments on Earth can now simulate the conditions under which life might emerge on Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other icy alien worlds, according to recent research.

NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 rover will be a souped-up version of the highly accomplished robot that touched down on the Red Planet in August 2012, agency officials said.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over northern Brazil on 22 August 2017, where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean....

NASA's far-flung Voyager 1 spacecraft has taken its backup thrusters out of mothballs.