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Perhaps it's illogical, but a composite image of two galaxy clusters colliding billions of light years away strongly resembles the shape of the Starship Enterprise, the iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise.
The NASA satellite is the most sophisticated ice-monitoring spacecraft every launched. It will measure climate change.
"So we're gonna launch our own satellite, our own damn satellite to figure out where the pollution is and how we're gonna end it, with great precision," Brown told attendees at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco Friday.
Scientists have long believed that water ice could exist in the ever-dark recesses at the moon's poles and that belief has finally been confirmed in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Aug. 20.
NASA astronauts paid a visit to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne Monday.
The proposed sixth branch of the U.S. military will "confront the emerging threats in the boundless expanse of space," according to the vice president.
A woman is suing NASA over a gift she claims was given to her by the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
Scientists reported Thursday that NASA's Curiosity rover has found potential building blocks of life in an ancient Martian lakebed.
A mysterious announcement by NASA promises a new scientific discovery about the Red Planet to be revealed in a Thursday news conference.
The first American woman in space, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, is getting her own postage stamp.
An asteroid the size of one of the Great Pyramids of Egypt will buzz by Earth, and you can watch it happen live.
NASA's "marscopter" will weigh under four pounds with a fuselage the size of a softball and blades that rotate 10 times the rate of a helicopter.
It was the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast, but fog blocked the view for spectators near the launch site.
The vice president is touring NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Saturday. He has two fundraisers in Malibu and Beverly Hills on Sunday.
It likely won't get any easier for the seventh planet in our solar system as a new report has confirmed that Uranus does actually stink like bad gas.
The launch is set for 3:51 p.m., with deployment of the satellite expected 48 minutes later. If successful the launch will be the eighth of the year for SpaceX.
An asteroid came alarmingly close to striking the Earth on April 15, just hours after the large space rock was spotted flying through the solar system.
The plane, known as the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, will make supersonic passenger air travel a reality, according to Skunk Works.
It will come within 39,000 miles of Earth, which is about one-fifth of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
For the first time, SpaceX simultaneously launched both a rocket and spacecraft that had served in previous flights.
Scientists observed what appears to be a "rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue" traveling at approximately 85,700 miles-per-hour through the Milky Way.
Radio silence signaled the end of a 20-year mission. The Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere at about 70,000 miles per hour Friday morning and vaporized into the planet it has studied for the past 13 years.
A system of seven Earth-like planets, three of which are considered to be in the "habitable zone," have been discovered orbiting a single star, NASA announced Wednesday.
NASA says it's troubleshooting a snag on the Mars rover Curiosity that's preventing it from moving its robotic arm and driving to another spot.
