Space News

The agency will hold a news conference Thursday (Dec. 14) at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) to reveal a new discovery made by its prolific Kepler space telescope, which has been searching the heavens for alien worlds since 2009.

On Tuesday (Dec. 12), SpaceX will make its first launch attempt from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station since a dramatic rocket explosion damaged the pad in September 2016.

Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, has unveiled the largest and most advanced planetarium in the Western Hemisphere.

Red lettuce is pictured being cultivated inside the Veggie facility for the Veg-03 botany experiment....

Composite image of tropical cyclones Dahlia (NE of Australia) and Three (tip of India) from 06:00 UTC on Thursday, 30 November 2017....

Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the California wildfires in the Los Angeles area on Dec. 6, 2017....

"The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google," NASA officials revealed in a media advisory. "Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing...

2017: A year of groundbreaking discoveries and record-setting exploration at NASA....

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

Look skyward on Wednesday night (Dec. 13) and you should see plenty of shooting stars to wish upon.

A solar instrument package designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder to help monitor the planet's climate is now set for launch Dec. 12 aboard a SpaceX rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

December 9, 2017: Today's links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an intriguing ...

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