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Included in the nation's new vision for space is a plan for NASA to "conduct advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets and habitable environments around other stars."

NASA is working to increase the performance of the flywheel, a wheel that transfers energy to run a machine, so that this technology can replace chemical batteries on future spacecraft and potentially save millions of dollars.

A extraordinary face-to-face with the moon called Phoebe, courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft on it's wondrous journey to Saturn...

The most complex interplanetary mission ever launched is about to meet one of the solar system's enigmatic moons. Cassini will fly by Saturn's largest outer moon, Phoebe, on Friday, June 11. The closest approach is at approximately 1:56 p.m. Pacific Time, just 19 days before Saturn arrival.

Today's big news is about something right here on AstroMart.

NASA researchers customize "lab-on-a-chip" technology to help protect future space explorers and detect life forms on Mars...

Well not quite. Unless you were off-world today, you probably caught the news about the Venus Transit...

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Two pairs of dark spots, or storms, in Saturn's atmosphere squeeze past each other as they dance around the planet.

Many astronomers studying nebulae like the Trifid are focusing their research on the ways that waves of star formation move through such regions.

New observations from the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope on Kitt Peak show striking visual evidence for a galaxy being stripped bare of its star-forming material by its violent ongoing encounter with the hot gas in the center of a galaxy cluster...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with infrared observations, have uncovered evidence that a gamma-ray burst — one of nature's most cataclysmic events — occurred in our Milky Way Galaxy a few thousand years ago. The Marshall Center manages the Chandra program.

Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects in the Distant Universe...

First Science from a Virtual Observatory

NASA has announced new findings from the Spitzer Space Telescope, including the discovery of significant amounts of icy organic materials sprinkled throughout several "planetary construction zones," or dusty planet-forming discs, which circle infant stars.