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NASA is part of an international team developing a cutting edge microcalorimeter X-ray camera that will provide extraordinarily detailed information about energetic cosmic phenomena.

A chunk of Mars will soon be returning home.

This past December, the New Horizons probe took a series of pictures from the Kuiper Belt, thus breaking the record for the most distant images ever taken! The post New Horizons Just Took a Record Breaking Image. No Came...

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Don't miss this! Podcasting superstar Joe Rogan interviews physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Ori...

On 13 February, a Russian rocket carried the antenna of the Icarus mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Icarus on-board computer was thus joined by another key component of the orbiting animal tracking s...

One test changed the fortunes of an advanced 3-D imaging lidar system now baselined for NASA's Restore-L project that will demonstrate an autonomous satellite-servicing capability.

A new paper shows that even a universe with wildly altered physical laws might produce life.

An interstellar object called 'Oumuamua has confounded astronomers ever since it passed through our solar system in October of last year.

Students from Highland Village, Texas, will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 1:10 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 14.

Despite decades of Red Planet exploration, the protocols for confirming evidence of life there are still quite hazy --

The secret to deep-space exploration could be buried deep within the moon.

A hole at the heart of a stunning rose-like interstellar cloud has puzzled astronomers for decades. But new research, led by the University of Leeds, offers an explanation for the discrepancy between the size and age of ...

On Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a total solar eclipse in space when Earth crossed its view of the Sun. Also known as a transit, Earth's passage was brief, lasting from 2:10 a.m. t...

Quayside is a nondescript, 12-acre chunk of land on the southern edge of Toronto's downtown. It's just three miles from my apartment, but getting there takes almost an hour by subway, bus, and foot. When I finally arrive...

On a certain level, extinction is all about energy. Animals move over their surroundings like Pacmen, chomping up resources to fuel their survival. If they gain a certain energy threshold, they reproduce, essentially ear...

Since 13 February, two key components of the Icarus mission have been orbiting in space. Following the on-board computer, which was carried to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2017, another Soyuz Progress...

Researchers have carried out a chemical abundance analysis of three chemically peculiar stars, HD 51959, HD 88035 and HD 121447. The research, based on spectroscopic data acquired by the Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical ...

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A Russian Soyuz rocket launched an unpiloted cargo ship toward the International Space Station Tuesday (Feb. 13), kicking off a two-day delivery mission to the orbiting laboratory.

One of the longest-serving women at NASA celebrated her 60th year with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory this January. At age 81, she has no plans to retire anytime soon.

A bold life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa was shut out in the 2019 federal budget proposal, but NASA still aims to see it fly.