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NASA has selected three potential landing sites for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover: an ancient lake, a past volcanic hotbed and an early hot-spring site. Scientists chose the final three...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will continue studying Jupiter for another three years. The $1.1 billion Juno mission has been extended through at least July 2021, NASA officials announced yesterday (June 6)....

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which has yielded the first close-up views of Pluto, was poised to ring in the new year by flying past the ancient icy object “Ultima Thule”...

Existing medical techniques are laying the foundations for an ambitious research project to send astronauts into a deep sleep on a six-month journey to Mars, according to the engineer leading...

A stunning new NASA video provides an astronaut’s view of the moon’s far side, when the crew aboard Apollo 13 was out of communication with Earth. The video, courtesy of...

It’s an “identified flying object.” On Monday morning, 220 or so miles about the Earth, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy looked out the window to see a mysterious object drifting by....

Bill Cooke, NASA scientist, is regularly shooting marbles into carefully arranged piles of soil. Each marble explodes on impact with a spectacular blast of light and leaves a nice-looking crater...

NASA is upping the ante as it continues its search for alien planets and may wind up using a starshade in one of its upcoming missions. The government space agency...

NASA said its new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope has discovered its smallest exoplanet so far, an alien world that’s roughly 80 percent the size of Earth and could...

And just in time for the start of football season. Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, researchers have discovered a football-shaped exoplanet 900 light-years from Earth that is being described as «hotter...