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The power and beauty of a rocket launch are on full display in a spectacular new video. The 1-minute video provides an up-close view of the Nov. 17 launch of four Galileo navigation satellites , which lifted off atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. The successful launch brought […]

President Barack Obama presents Apollo code developer Margaret Hamilton (at left) and “Apollo 13” actor Tom Hanks (right) with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 22, 2016. Margaret H. Hamilton is a computer scientist who was instrumental to NASA’s efforts to land humans on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. For her work, […]

By Steve Spaleta | November 29, 2016 10:30am ET The first images from the European Space Agency mission’s Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS)  have been stitched together to show parts of Mars’ Arisa Chasmata, Noctis Labyrinthus and more. The imagery was captured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on November 22, 2016. credit […]

This image of Mercury’s south polar region from NASA’s Messenger probe shows a map colored on the basis of the percentage of time that a given area is sunlit; areas appearing black in the map are regions of permanent shadow. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. But although it boasts the most widely […]

A new NASA report aims to help reduce the threat of contamination of Mars and other worlds during crewed space missions. Future astronauts may return to Earth with valuable samples of Mars. However, space agencies face a daunting challenge — they have to both protect life on Earth from potential aliens  and defend potential aliens […]

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo and Japan’s AstroBiology Center used the Okayama 188-cm telescope in Japan to observe the planet K2-3d, located 150 light-years away, as it passed in front of its star. The measurement marks the first time the potentially habitable planet was measured from Earth. A […]

Amateur astronomer Zack Payne took these photos of the supermoon during his “moon party” in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Nov. 14. Amateur astronomer and space enthusiast Zack Payne wants more people to get excited about looking at the sky. So when November’s full “supermoon” came the closest to Earth that it’s been since 1948, he threw […]

NASA’s NavCube project could power an X-ray communication demonstration in space. New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say. The technology would combine multiple NASA projects currently in […]