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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Gemini North telescope team has released a stunning image of starburst galaxy NGC 4449, which is ablaze with intense star birth as it devours smaller galaxies.

Tweaking radiocarbon dating technique provides a clearer time of the Kyrenia sinking.

After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online.

To look for atmospheres around planets outside our solar system is to look for extraterrestrial life. Astronomist Sebastian Zieba has used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to study small rocky exoplanets but foun...

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at the Moon and Mars. As the agency transitions to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange structures in the atmosphere of Jupiter over the solar system's largest storm, the Great Red Spot, proving the planet is full of surprises.

Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Securit...

In 1983, NASA received delivery of Discovery, the third space qualified vehicle in the agency's space shuttle fleet. During the launch attempt for the STS-41D mission on June 26, 1984, Discovery's onboard computers halte...

After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online. The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Orga...

Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread climatic shift that, a...

The Borderlands movie is right around the corner, and we can't think of a better time to jump into the legendary sci-fi FPS video game franchise.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) satellite lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 2...

As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all, a habitat-growing concept selected Wednesday by the agency could help "grow" homes using fungi for future explorers. A team of res...

Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Securit...

NASA engineers are incorporating augmented reality while constructing the next-gen Roman Space Telescope. Here's how.

Infrared imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft heats up the discussion on the inner workings of Jupiter's hottest moon. New findings from NASA's Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes ar...

A new RAND report highlights China's inflated perceptions of U.S. threats and a policy approach that resists cooperation with the U.S. to prevent crisis escalation The post China’s ‘worst-case thinking’ could spark...

An interview with "After the Flying Saucers Came" author and Penn State history professor Greg Eghigian about the history of the UFO phenomenon and those who study it.

Lynn RothschildNASA Ames Research Center (ARC) A turtle carries its habitat. While reliable, it costs energy in transporting mass. NASA makes the same trade-off when it transports habitats and other structures off planet...

The Chang'e 6 lander, which collected the first-ever samples on the moon's far side, apparently switched off after that material was launched off the lunar surface.

Urban Sky, a startup developing stratospheric balloons to take high-resolution imagery, has won a multimillion-dollar NASA grant to develop a wildfire monitoring system. The post Urban Sky wins NASA award to develop ball...

Watch as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy second stage deploys the powerful new GOES-U satellite into space as Earth glows in the background.