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For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be s...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have shown that Alpha Draconis, a well-studied star visible to the naked eye, and its fainter companion star regularly eclipse each other. W...

A new approach to detecting oxygen in the atmospheres of other planets may aid in the search for life beyond Earth.

Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure--the largest ever seen in our galaxy--made up of interconnected stellar nurseries. Dubbed the "Radcliffe wave" in honor of the...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut taxi will have to wait at least another week to show its emergency-escape skills in flight.

Rain passed over southeastern Australia on Sunday (Jan. 5), offering a brief moment of relief from the deadly wildfires that have been raging across the continent for months.

This galaxy looks a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy. But while our galaxy is actively forming lots of new stars, this one is birthing stars at only half the rate of the Milky Way. It’s been mostly quiet for billions ...

TOI 700 d is a landmark discovery for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite --

Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman's 13th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.

The TESS program has unearthed yet another potentially Earth-like planet in the universe.

The first batch of space-baked cookies is back on Earth, along with muscle-bound "mighty" mice and other space station experiments.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2019 annual report Tuesday examining the agency's safety performance over the past year and highlighting acc...

Arianespace and ESA announced the signing of a contract Tuesday for launch of the Euclid dark universe exploration mission. SpaceNews.com

York Space Systems announced plans Jan. 7 to conduct a series of missions to rapidly flight qualify government and industry satellite payloads, subsystems and components. SpaceNews.com

The United States is on the verge of making a profound strategic mistake. The nation is preparing to spend $85 billion replacing working nuclear-armed Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles with a new "Ground Base...

In this excerpt from a "fireside chat" at the third annual SpaceNews Awards for Excellence & Innovation Dec. 10, Doug Loverro discusses why he took on this new challenge and Jim Bridenstine explains why he believes Lover...

Despite numerous setbacks, the $9.7-billion observatory is still on schedule to revolutionize our view of the universe --

Despite a limited amount of schedule reserve remaining, both NASA and Northrop Grumman are cautiously optimistic that the James Webb Space Telescope will remain on schedule for launch in March 2021. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX just launched its latest batch of Starlink internet satellites, and you might be able to spot the craft overhead if you know where to look.

What if I told you that our universe was flooded with hundreds of kinds of nearly invisible particles and that, long ago, these particles formed a network of universe-spanning strings?

Currently, the faint star V Sagittae, V Sge, in the constellation Sagitta, is barely visible, even in mid-sized telescopes. However, around the year 2083, this innocent star will explode, becoming as bright as Sirius, th...