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NASA officials are flooded with media requests from journalists recently looking to find out exactly what all the fuss is ...

Now that this whole political circus has been finally wrapped, many projects that had been left on standby or have ...

Between Oct. 28 and Oct. 30, NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in California was directed on "2007 PA8", a one ...

Surprisingly many people have question the benefits of building and supporting an international space stations, especially considering the costs, which ...

Artist impression of the New Horizons spacecraft set to fly by the Pluto system in July 2015. (c) JHUAPL/SWRI NASA's ...

This past weekend, the last American space shuttle, the Endeavour, made its final trip through the streets of Los Angeles ...

It may look like an ordinary cup of sand, but for NASA scientists this is a milestone almost as important ...

Precisely today, October 4, 55 years ago one of the most important milestones in human spaceflight took place. Then, the ...

The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are on a two-year mission to explore the Van Allen Belts. (c) NASA Surrounding our ...

A massive whirling dust storm on the surface of Mars, as seen captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The extreme ...

Recent measurements conducted by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and observed by other X-ray instruments from around world and in space, suggest that ...

An artist impression of a view from the far side of the moon. At the beginning of the year, we ...

Two studies conducted by scientists at NASA based on data gathered by the Dawn spacecraft, which orbited around the Vesta ...

Phobos transit over sun. (c) NASA As once can see above, Curiosity recently caught glimpse of a partial solar eclipse ...

An artist impression of one of the two gas giants discovered orbiting a sun-like star, part of a star cluster. ...

According to recent findings as a result of observations from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), it seems like the moon's ...

Ok, enough of the low-res, black and white photos from Curiosity. NASA just released the first high-resolution, nearly dust free, ...

Strap on your 3-D glasses, folks. Curiosity is back on ZME Science, this time in full 3-D. We just got ...

Hope you're all not too bored by the influx of Curiosity we've been feeding these past few days. We believe ...

Yes, Curiosity has landed! And like we've reported earlier, right after the rover landed on the martian surface, it beamed ...

At precisely 10:32 p.m. Pacific time (1:32 a.m. EDT/0530 GMT), today, August 6, NASA's Curiosity Rover touched down on martian soil ...

Both Boeing and SpaceX are set to split as much as $1 billion in federal awards destined to spur development ...

Just last week, man's first step on the moon turned 43 years. Uncoincidently, maybe, NASA announced recently that its Lunar ...

Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the ...

The 3D printing revolution is right around the corner. While we might still be a few years away from seeing ...

NASA satellite images showed the extent of surface melt on Greenland's ice sheet on July 8, on the left, and ...

For the past couple of years NASA has been testing a new atmospheric re-entry system, designed to offer pods and ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service recently reported that an ice island, whose surface is ...

In 2010, a NASA study published in the journal Science heralded the discovery of a bacteria, called GFAJ-1, which the authors ...

Last year, we reported on this incredible study from NASA scientists, where the possibility of a vast ocean of water beneath the ...

It's remarkably impressive how a spacecraft built and launched in the late 70's is not only still functional, but well ...

The permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole, called Shackleton, after the famous Antarctic explorer. Left elevation mapping, ...

Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Their formed after black holes devour captured material, like  gas dust ...

The most sophisticated rover developed by NASA to date, the Mars Curiosity rover, is set to land on the red ...

First discovered in 2005, and then studied in more depth since 2007, NASA scientists have finally isolated the ethereal glow ...

Now this is something that doesn't happen everyday, especially from behalf of one of the most paranoid and money-gobbling organizations ...

The most successful private space flight venture, SpaceX, continues its successful streak which began with the successful launch and docking ...

As we already told you, after the first launch attempt was stopped with just one second to go, SpaceX finally ...

Last Saturday, after many meticulous preparatory stages and a couple of exasperating postponements, SpaceX was set to launch  its Falcon 9 rocket, ...

Since the space shuttle program was cancelled last year, NASA has been looking for various alternatives to sending manned crews ...

In a distant galaxy, 2.7 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole, thousands of times more massive than our ...

This Friday, ground mission control ordered the current stationed astronaut crew at the International Space Station to head for the ...

You might have thought I made a typo and that I was probably meaning to say $500 million, but truth ...

Supernovae are one of the most energetic and brightest events in the cosmos, often so powerful they outshine whole galaxies. ...

July 20th, 1969 marked the day man first set foot on the moon, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gracefully ...

General Motors has always invested in technology which goes beyond the automotive applications for which the company is primarily known, ...

If you happen to be on the East Coast tonight, preferably between North Carolina and New Jersey, you'll be in ...

An emotional video collage of talks made by Neil Degrasse Tyson dissing the current poor attention NASA has been receiving, ...

Located beneath the three stars that form the belt of Orion the Hunter, the Orion Nebula is one of the ...

So we heard you like the International Space Station, so we made an ISS inside the ISS. Humor aside, I ...