NASA

On Earth, dust is treated as little more than a fact of life: an accumulation of detritus to be swept up, vacuumed, and wiped from...

The world's first interplanetary CubeSats have an adorable story behind their unlikely nicknames.

Later this summer, SpaceX will launch a test Dragon capsule that's designed to carry humans. If it works out, then SpaceX will start...

The James Webb Space Telescope is an ambitious project, set to be much more powerful than Hubble once it's actually in...

The International Space Station (ISS) has six humans living onboard, but up until today, it had seven astronauts. If you counted...

NASA conducted an unusual rocket launch early Saturday morning, sending a new mission off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in...

A team of high school students used NASA technology to invent a way to purify their contaminated school drinking fountains.

NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba opened the airlock and performed a spacewalk outside the ISS – all while grappling with his fear of...

As NASA makes plans to send humans farther into space, either to the Moon (although plans for this are shaky) or Mars, they'll...

The robotic population on Mars will be increasing by one this fall, when NASA's InSight lander touches down on the Red Planet. And its...

Since NASA is most well known for exploring, and justifiably so, it's easy to forget that the agency focuses a fair amount on our...

The ESA's Gaia satellite is the gift that just keeps on giving--not only has it given astronomers and astrophysicists a super-accurate...

NASA won't be launching their latest and greatest Mars rover until 2020, but just like anything we launch into space, it's going to...

In 2009, NASA launched their Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope (or WISE for short, because of course) with the simple...

Never assume that a star is too big to steal. If you carelessly leave some spare hydrogen lying around, it'll snatch that right up in...

Currently, NASA only has a handful of active technology on/orbiting the Moon, preferring to set their sights on Mars and other spots...

What started off as a routine flyover for researcher John Sonntag ended with a discovery that scientists are scrambling to...

NASA is mostly known for their work in space, but they do plenty of work on our home planet as well as issues like climate change ...

Whenever a space-themed movie comes out, you can bet that Neil deGrasse Tyson will dissect and pick it apart on his Twitter feed. But...

A lot of NASA's funding tends to be shaky right now, with budget allocations for some projects being slashed without a clear reason...