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The European Space Agency awarded two contracts to Airbus to study elements of a Mars sample return approach as the outlines of international cooperation with NASA on that effort materialize. SpaceNews.com

Looking to the next-generation of telescopes, a pair of astrophysicists propose using swarm robots to conduct observations instead of relying on increasingly large and complex arrays. The post Instead of Building Single ...

A newfound quasar is blasting out the brightest radio emissions ever observed in the early universe, new research reports.

A newly discovered quasar's light has been traveling nearly 13 billion of the universe's 13.7 billion years to reach us here in Earth. P352-15 is the first quasar with clear evidence of radio jets seen within the first b...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel and has been forced to take a nap.

NASA has awarded the contract to Venesco & SaiTech Joint Venture (VSJV), LLC of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide information technology support services for the Information Technology and Communications Division at NASA H...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The Amazon River, and its surrounding lakes, cuts through the South American country of Brazil....

More research gear continues to be unloaded from inside and outside of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft today. Back on Earth, another resupply ship is poised to blast off Monday on a quick delivery mission to the Internatio...

The P120C solid-fuel rocket motor that will power Ariane 6 and Vega-C at liftoff has been transferred to the test stand for its first hot firing at Europe's Spaceport

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Carnegie's Eduardo Bañados led a team that found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early universe, due to it spewing out a jet of extremely fast-moving material.

A Russian cargo spacecraft set a record tonight (July 9), arriving at the International Space Station less than 4 hours after lifting off.

"I know, I know," writes Caltech's Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy, who specializes in the discovery and study of bodies at the edge of the solar system. "We have all been i...

Carnegie Science:

Solar eclipses will occur at opposite ends of the Earth this summer, 2018. Both will be merely partial solar eclipses as seen from the Earth's surface, not as dramatic as last summer's total solar eclipse whose path of t...

This week, the largest solid rocket motor ever built in one piece will be test fired at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for the first time.

Space Science Image of the Week: Preparations are in full swing for Cheops, Europe's exoplanet watcher, on track to be ready for launch by the end of the year

Russia's space agency Roscosmos will launch a fresh cargo ship on a swift one-day flight to the International Space Station today (July 9) and you can watch it all live online.

Earlier this week, NASA's Kepler team received an indication that the spacecraft fuel tank is running very low. NASA has placed the spacecraft in a hibernation-like state in preparation to download the science data colle...

This animation demonstrates how deformation in the icy surface of Europa could transport subsurface ocean water to the moon's surface.

This busy image is a treasure trove of wonders. Bright stars from the Milky Way sparkle in the foreground, the magnificent swirls of several spiral galaxies are visible across the frame, and a glowing assortment of objec...