
Planetary Scientists Decry Trump's Proposed Earth-Science Cuts
The president's proposed budget would boost funding for NASA's planetary science division, but at what cost?
The president's proposed budget would boost funding for NASA's planetary science division, but at what cost?
Images from the Rosetta spacecraft provide the first clear link between a comet's outbursts and changes upon the comet's surface
The Swift telescope has charted a star's plunge into a supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy
New funding will help the HERA observatory to peer deeper into the cosmic past than ever before
Bubbles of nitrogen gas may explain strange shape-shifting “magic islands” in the hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's largest moon
A new study finds the mysterious substance was at most a minor constituent of large galaxies in the early universe
New research suggests parts of the subsurface ocean are covered by as little as two kilometers of ice
The Obama-era Asteroid Redirect Mission is one of several casualties of the $19.1-billion budget request
NASA officials are considering taking part in the upcoming Russian Venera D mission
A white dwarf star in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae circles a black hole twice per hour
The planet-hunting observatory stared at the TRAPPIST-1 system for nearly three months
The station's Cold Atom Laboratory will reach temperatures just a billionth of a degree above absolute zero
Geologically young deposits in a crater on the dwarf planet's surface were formed by brine erupting from below
New maps of galactic magnetic fields will enhance the study of stellar birth
The private launch company must overcome several hurdles to meet its aggressive schedule for an ambitious lunar mission
Although it won't launch until the 2020s, the spacecraft's key components are being designed right now
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider reveal subtle distinctions in how matter and antimatter decay
Two private citizens have already paid a "significant deposit" to reserve seats on the spaceflight company's nascent Falcon Heavy rocket
An international group of astronomers is set to codify a crop of informal names for the dwarf planet's geographical features
The space agency is considering adding astronauts to the first lunar voyage of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule
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