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The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using data from ESA's star mapping spacecraft Gaia and its predecessor, the quarter-century retired Hipparcos satellite.

NASA's InSight spacecraft, en route to a Nov. 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on Aug. 6. All of its instruments have been tested and are working well.

The launch of a European satellite that will be the first to directly measure wind speeds around the world has been delayed--because of bad weather.

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

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Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers recently probed a 500 light-year region of the early Universe and found that it contained less galaxies than they were expecting. The post Cosmic Void Contains Fewer Gala...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 24, to provide an update on upcoming activities related to the agency's first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth.

New DoD report raises concerns about China's counterspace weapons, including kinetic-kill missiles, ground-based lasers and orbiting space robots. SpaceNews.com

The answer lies in the tiny shifts we see in a star's position as Earth revolves around the sun. --

A meteor that appeared over Alabama on Friday blazed a fiery trail.

The surface of the sun is a roiling tangle of magnetism, heat and light, stunning new images reveal.

On the one-year anniversary of the historic 2017 Eclipse Across America, NASA will host a Science Chat at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 21, to discuss new science data and the public impact of the celestial event experie...

The Zephyr drone could be used for military reconnaissance and wildfire monitoring, among other activities.

Hopes of colonising Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere and clement temperatures. However, a recent study cast doubt on the idea, c...

New technology that detects radiation from the sun in real time and immediately predicts subsequent health risks could protect astronauts on future deep-space missions, according to a new study.

A growing talent gap is one of the biggest economic, cultural, and security risk this nation faces in the critical next two decades. SpaceNews.com

The Expedition 56 crew members explored using algorithms to remotely control a robot on the ground and satellites from the International Space Station today....

Relativity Space, the startup developing a small launch vehicle making extensive use of 3D-printing technologies, has brought on board a former SpaceX and Virgin Orbit executive to help grow the company. SpaceNews.com

Lunar masonry starts on Earth. European researchers are working with Moon dust simulants that could one day allow astronauts to build habitats on our natural satellite and pave the way for human space exploration.

An international team of astronomers has detected synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching between radio-bright and a radio-quiet modes in the pulsar PSR B0823+26. The discovery marks the second time that such synchron...

Mercury was a NASA program to prove that astronauts could function effectively in space for minutes to hours at a time.

After its historic flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to rendezvous with a tiny, icy Kuiper Belt object.