SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket fuel testbed, and even human ashes.
Read moreA Trump administration national security official sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to his emails.
Read moreResearchers made a startling discovery challenging scientific consensus regarding the composition of the subterranean oceans on Europa, one of 79 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Read moreThe quest to find exoplanets – Earth-like objects orbiting distant stars in our universe – will get a boost from a flower-like spacecraft with metallic petals to block starlight long enough for telescopes to view distant objects like never before, NASA said Tuesday.
Read moreLooking to plan a trip where you can really get away from it all? The International Space Station may have a room for you. NASA announced Friday that it will open the orbiting outpost up to private astronauts as soon as 2020.
Read moreA government watchdog group reported Thursday that NASA’s major space projects are over budget and falling behind schedule.
Read morePresident Donald Trump dismissed the hard realities of his trade dispute with China as mere foolishness Monday and told people to expect humans on Mars “very shortly,” which isn’t happening.
Read moreNASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator’s line of sight as businesses seek to unleash the unmanned devices in droves above busy streets and buildings.
Read moreDespite orbiting the sun at an average distance of 3.6 billion miles, Pluto’s subsurface oceans haven’t frozen over, a phenomenon researchers said they’ve solved in a study released Monday.
Read moreIn January, a NASA spacecraft made contact with a “snowman” shaped object in a virtually unexplored, icy realm of space beyond the gas giants Uranus and Neptune. In the process, the spacecraft uncovered clues about the formation of the Milky Way.
Read moreMassive basins formed billions of years ago on Earth’s moon were assumed to be dormant geological formations, but a NASA study of the lunar bowls has found that they hold clues that the moon is actively transforming.
Read moreThe Trump administration may have issued a directive ordering American astronauts back to the moon in five years, but lawmakers bristled Wednesday as NASA officials offered few concrete details about the lunar landing plan or the project’s prospective budget.
Read moreScientists and engineers crowded inside tense situation rooms in Maryland this week to coordinate worldwide emergency response systems and to defend Earth from an asteroid that is hurtling towards our planet at more than 31,000 miles per hour.
Read moreThe universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it’s about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that’s sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think some of its most basic concepts.
Read moreA spacecraft designed to probe the depths of Mars’ surface in order to study the origins of our universe has recorded the first Martian quake ever detected, NASA said Tuesday.
Read moreGlobal warming trends are hard to ignore, according to NASA, especially after its researchers compared 16 years of climate data gathered by satellites with temperature measurements on Earth and found some alarming parallels.
Read moreNASA trotted out advancements made by its Planetary Defense Coordination Office on Tuesday aimed at identifying near-Earth objects to help the planet prepare to defend itself against asteroid impacts.
Read moreRadar data and images from the only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn revealed small yet surprisingly deep methane-filled liquid lakes perched atop hills on Titan, the gas giant’s largest moon, NASA revealed Monday.
Read moreMuch like the popular movie scene where scientists discover an ancient insect preserved in amber, a Carnegie Institution for Science research team announced its discovery of primitive dust particles from a comet encased inside a meteorite found on Antarctica.
Read moreA landmark study of an astronaut who spent nearly a year in space – and his Earth-bound twin brother – offers clues to the physical and genetic toll that long-term space travel can have on the body, NASA said Thursday amid efforts to boost deeper exploration of the Final Frontier.
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