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NASA has validated 1,284 new planets from Kepler space telescope’s July 2015 catalog to post a new record as the single largest batch of confirmed planets to date. The space agency said Wednesday...

The White House on Tuesday hosted a conference to discuss new initiatives in the public and private sectors to integrate resilience concepts into commercial and residential building design, standards and codes....

The Department of Homeland Security will perform a five-day study in some parts of New York  City’s subway system in May to collect data on airborne particles’ behavior. DHS science...

Beth Cobert Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Beth Cobert said that the agency aims to continue its focus on the recruiting and developing the talent of the federal workforce as the...

Shaun Donovan The Office of Management and Budget has announced plans to appoint a shared services policy officer that will work to develop and implement government-wide rules on administrative shared...

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is using a 4-by-8-foot vacuum chamber to test components of a sensor package that will support the planned 2018 Solar Probe Plus mission that aims to send a spacecraft into the sun's atmosphere....

Kayla Williams Kayla Williams, formerly project associate at nonprofit public policy think tank Rand Corp., has been named director of the center for women veterans at the Department of Veterans...

The General Services Administration has created a third service line to help federal agencies identify and acquire tools and platforms to digitally transform their organizations. GSA established the Technology Transformation Service organization to house the...

The White House has proposed a “mission authorization” framework that would allow the Federal Aviation Administration to oversee asteroid mining, transportation of payloads to the lunar surface and other emerging...

Michael Watkins Michael Watkins, director of the center for space research at the University of Texas in Austin, has been appointed as the new director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...