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The U.S. Navy deployed a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock Wednesday to support a NASA spacecraft recovery test off the coast of Southern California. USS Anchorage (LPD 23) departed from San Diego Naval Base

NASA has performed the first fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space, which could help future robotic spacecraft to travel to deep space locations. The space agency said Thursday a team of engineers carried

NASA is slated to launch four rockets from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska between Jan. 15 to 30 to study space x-ray emissions and the formation of Polar Mesospheric Clouds. The space agency said

A new report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine proposes a series of Earth science missions for NASA to pursue over the next decade, Space News reported Friday. The recommended

A research team led by scientist John Worden of NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has helped optimize the accuracy of estimated increases in methane emissions through a new study. NASA said Tuesday that

A midterm evaluation report about the 2011 decadal survey for physical and life sciences research says NASA should create a transition plan on how to perform microgravity research, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. A National

Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for space technology at NASA, has said the agency is open to the possibility of permitting researchers to fly aboard commercial suborbital spacecraft to conduct experiments as part

NASA has chosen two proposed space exploration concepts as finalists for a robotic mission scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s. The space agency said Thursday it will fund the concept development of the