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Ceres, the closest dwarf planet to Earth, may be wrinkling as it shrinks.

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the Earth. NEOs are consequently potential collision threats, but scientists are also interested in them because they off...

CITIC Group and The Carlyle Group, operating through subsidiaries, proposed June 24 to pay 1.022 billion Hong Kong dollars ($130.8 million) to buy the 25.57 percent of shares they don't already own. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded eight contracts under the NASA-wide Acquisition for Nitrogen and Oxygen 3 (NANO 3) solicitation to eight U.S. companies to supply nitrogen and oxygen to NASA centers for a variety of operational activiti...

NASA has awarded a contract to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland for the agency's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIR...

Behold the "mole": The heat-sensing spike that NASA's InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible. Last week, the spacecraft's robotic arm successfully removed the support structure of the mole, which h...

An inflatable decelerator technology that could one day help humans land on Mars will fly on the same Atlas V rocket as the JPSS-2 satellite.

NASA has selected 12 new science and technology payloads that will help us study the Moon and explore more of its surface as part of the agency's Artemis lunar program. These investigations and demonstrations will help t...

Some high-profile celebrities are making their way to the Atacama Desert to watch the moon cross in front of the sun on July 2.

You can run a race, hit a museum, shoot off a rocket or count down to the moment 50 years ago that Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon.

Orion's launch-abort system will get a workout tomorrow (July 2) at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

Relativity is used in more day to day situations than you may realize. In this episode, we will count (some of) the ways. This episode is brought to you live from the All-Stars Star Party in Indian Wells, California. We ...

A new 3D printer aims to create human tissue in space after it launches to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX cargo mission in July.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to da...

Imagine slow-motion fireworks that started exploding 170 years ago and are still continuing....

Hubble offers a special view of the double star system Eta Carinae's expanding gases glowing in red, white, and blue. This is the highest resolution image of Eta Carinae taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Three of the 60 satellites SpaceX launched last month to begin its broadband megaconstellation have lost contact with ground control teams, a SpaceX spokesperson said June 28.

On October 19, 2017, astronomers discovered the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. First spotted by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (PanSTARRS1) telescope located at the...

Galaxies grow by accumulating gas from their surroundings and converting it to stars, but the details of this process have remained murky. New observations, made using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at the W. M. Keck ...

There is little known about the effects of space radiation on the human body. Astronauts cannot see or feel it, yet the high doses they are exposed to outside Earth's cocoon pose health hazards for trips to the Moon and ...

Now available is the June 26, 2019 Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Brent Ziarnick (USAF Air Command and Staff College), who spoke on "Developing National Power in Space: Organizational...