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Frank Rose, former assistant secretary of state for arms control, said funding for space security, missile defense sand nuclear weapons are going to be key "points of friction" because the administration the new Congress...

A monster black hole acts like a mechanical pump in a cosmic fountain, and researchers speculate that this phenomenon may be common.

A NASA spacecraft designed to drill down into Mars' interior landed on the planet Monday after a perilous, supersonic plunge through its red skies, setting off jubilation among scientists who had waited in white-knuckle ...

The sounds of the Mars InSight Mission control room during the tense minutes leading to the landing on the surface. --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

After enduring a high-tension descent from orbit, the spacecraft will now begin its quest to peel back the profound mysteries of the Red Planet’s interior --

Gen. C.Q. Brown: One of the concerns is that China will jam military satellite communications. "If I can't guarantee that comms will be up the entire time, how do forces execute mission orders?" SpaceNews.com

While there are indeed real threats the United States faces in space, the political and public discourse about both the threats and solutions leaves much to be desired. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

NASA's InSight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars Nov. 26, completing a journey of nearly 500 million kilometers and starting a mission to study the planet's interior. SpaceNews.com

A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.

Stereo 3D brings new depth to archival images of the Apollo missions to the moon.

New book "Mission Moon: 3D" presents the history of NASA's Apollo missions, with 3D photographs.

After a dramatic and exhilarating landing on Mars, NASA's newest Martian robot InSight has found some serenity on the Red Planet. And now, it's soaking up the sun.

Space. The very word speaks of emptiness and isolation. But since we discovered how useful it is to put things up there, space has been getting a little bit crowded.

On Sunday, about a dozen engineers and scientists gathered in the mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They listened intently through headsets while training their eyes on a curving wall of monitors ...

Magnetic fields are present in a large variety of stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, during all evolutionary stages from pre-main sequence stars, to main sequence stars and evolved stars, up to the final stage...

Brazilian astronomer Denilso Camargo has recently discovered five new globular clusters in the Milky Way's bulge that could offer essential clues on the formation and evolution of our galaxy's innermost regions. The newl...

At just before 9pm Central European Time on 26 November, Mars will receive a new visitor: NASA's InSight lander.

Astronomers have conducted a study of unusually bright single pulses (BSPs) from the millisecond pulsar PSR B1744'24A. The new research, which determined properties of these pulses, could contribute to understanding the ...

You don't have to leave Australia to be a rocket scientist. In fact, you might not even have to leave your job.

Ground-penetrating radar has already helped scientists discover liquid water under Mars' surface. It might also be the key to discovering if life exists on our cosmic neighbour.