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In this time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 9, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, bunny-suited engineers move the Mars 2020 rover from a high bay in the Spacecraft Simulator Building into the ...

The brightest X-ray burst ever observed by NICER released as much energy in 20 seconds as our sun does in about 10 days.

Astonishingly, not one but two interstellar asteroids have been detected entering our solar system since 2017.

A new model of the whole Earth shows how the mantle and crust drive the movement of tectonic plates as well as the creation and destruction of supercontinents.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Sending scientific instruments to the edge of the heliosphere, or the sun's region of influence, is like going to the edge of the fish bowl.

In my long career as an assiduous amateur astronomer, I've seen other transits of Mercury, but one from November 1973 stands out.

The Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment (IA-Pre) program will be run by the Air Force Space Command's commercial satellite communications office. SpaceNews.com

Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe.

'There is another.'

OneWeb has delayed the beginning of its regular launch campaign by a month to allow more testing of its small broadband satellites. SpaceNews.com

Mercury is putting on a rare celestial show next week, parading across the sun in view of most of the world.

Mathematicians have uncovered a big new piece of evidence for one of the most famous unproven ideas in mathematics, known as the twin prime conjecture.

India has launched just three planetary-science spacecraft, but the country is already eyeing a new destination: Venus.

A rare transit of Mercury will take place on 11 November, when the smallest planet in our Solar System will pass directly between the Earth and the Sun. The last time this happened was in 2016, and the next will be in 20...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This replica model of ESA's 'Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer', or M-Argo, was on display at the Agency's recent Antennas workshop. It is the one of numerous small missions planned as part of ESA's Techn...

A NASA astronaut flying to the International Space Station next spring could be the only American on the station for an extended period because of uncertainty in the status of commercial crew vehicles. SpaceNews.com

It's a long way down as a rocket and its fairing part ways during a launch. An incredible video shows that journey for the nose cone SpaceX will reuse during its next Falcon 9 launch.

When Mercury passes in front of the sun on Monday, you'll need the right equipment to see it safely. But if you don't have that kind of astronomy gear handy, you can also watch it live online.

If you want to watch the Mercury transit on Monday (Nov. 11) but don't have the proper equipment, you can still find a viewing event near you. Here's how.

The date is set for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's first spacewalk of his Beyond mission. Friday 15 November marks the start of a series of complex spacewalks to service the cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectro...