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Pentagon auditors found gaps in EELV quality assurance management that "could increase program costs, delay launch schedules, and increase the risk of mission failure." SpaceNews.com

When the moon's shadow zipped across the United States during the Great American Solar Eclipse this past August, the shadow traveled so fast it created waves in Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study finds.

Scientists spotted seven Earth-size alien planets orbiting one dim red star this year, and a lot of other strange exoplanets.

Avanti says the evolution of high-throughput satellites is outpacing the company's satellite fleet, making it difficult to secure business with the Hylas 1 and Hylas 2 broadband satellites. SpaceNews.com

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

A new project using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes allows people to navigate through real data of the remains of an exploded star for the first time.

Podcast superstar Joe Rogan interviews Sean Carroll, a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity at the California Institute of Technology.

"There is no 'real' time, only models constructed in human awareness." Why do we remember the past, but not the future? Why don't we meet people who grow younger as they age? Why do things, left by themselves, tend to......

An international study co-led by SFU researcher Brendan Dyck has revealed that the sun may not have evaporated away all of Mars' surface water after all....

A lucky visitor to NASA's Kennedy Space Center snapped a photo of the payload container that will fly aboard SpaceX's new megarocket, the Falcon Heavy.

RSC Energia of Moscow said Dec. 27 that the satellite it built for Angola has stopped sending telemetry data after separating from the Zenit rocket upper stage. SpaceNews.com

Despite the many impressive discoveries humans have made about the universe, scientists are still unsure about the birth story of our solar system. But now scientists have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our sola...

The cosmos in your cranium: "The human brain is the most complex organized matter in the universe (pending more complex brains that exist elsewhere in the cosmos)." Cracking the German Enigma code is considered to be one...

The year 2017 was a big one for NASA. From astronaut Peggy Whitson's record-shattering spaceflight to the daring death-dive of Cassini into Saturn and a pledge to return astronauts to the moon, take a look back at the ye...

Today - Rodent Research 6 (RR-6): In support of the on-going RR-6 investigation, the crew removed the mice and restocked the rodent habitats with new food bars in addition to cleaning the lids and interiors cages of the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of four new 'hot Jupiter' extrasolar worlds by the HATSouth survey. The newly found exoplanets received designations HATS-50b through HATS-53b. The finding is pr...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured what looks like a colorful holiday ornament in space. It's actually an image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star near...

Most galaxies lie in clusters containing from a few to thousands of objects. Our Milky Way, for example, belongs to a cluster of about fifty galaxies called the Local Group whose other large member is the Andromeda galax...

2017 featured one of the most remarkable exoplanet discoveries of 2017: a total of seven Earth-size planets have been found orbiting a cool dwarf star, three planets of which are in "goldilocks" orbits, meaning they coul...

This is NASA's 2018 'To Do' list. The work we do, which will continue in 2018, helps the United States maintain its world leadership in space exploration and scientific discovery. Launches, discoveries and more explorati...

With the opening of the new Astronaut Training Experience (ATX) at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in February 2018, guests will be the first to "touch down" on the Red Planet.

New study shows that meteorites rather than terrestrial ore were the sources of Bronze-Age iron --