NASA

Let's be honest here. NASA and other major space agencies haven't exactly inspired confidence when it comes to defending Earth from...

NASA has typically been one of the less controversial government agencies throughout its history, but if you ask somebody who...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe hasn't had an easy time as of late.The MRO has spent the past decade living up to its name, as...

Between the distant planets just found by Kepler, the seven Earth-like planets found last year in the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, and...

It's been said before, but it's always worth saying again: tasks that sound simple in everyday life become much trickier out in...

When NASA's Opportunity rover first landed on Mars in 2004, it was expected to last around three months before it inevitably broke...

A great warthog once said that you gotta put your behind in your past. It looks like the folks at NASA missed that advice from The...

The future of space travel is likely going to involve a lot of robots. As artificial intelligence and robotic bodies develop, it makes...

The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely in the planet's...

If you're keeping count at home (which you shouldn't be, because there is a website for that), the current count for confirmed...

Last year, when Donald Trump came to power, it was quickly announced that many government-backed scientific endeavors would receive...

Out of the dozens of moons in orbit around Saturn, the icy Enceladus (while not always as popular as its fellow moon Titan) is a...

Earth currently has an extremely limited amount of Martian rocks to study. We've never managed a successful round trip flight to and...

The four-meter Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope was cutting edge when it was first installed inside a 14-story, 500-ton dome on top of an...

When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 with the Bell X-1, we doubt he was concerned about noise complaints filed in the...

SpaceX just had a big week, managing to successfully launch their gigantic Falcon Heavy rocket and the Tesla Roadster stored in the...

Back in 1957, an Unidentified Flying Object was discovered in Silpho Moor near Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England.The event has...

Elon Musk, being the eccentric billionaire that he is, definitely made his presence known during SpaceX's historic launch of their...

News broke last month that the Trump administration was planning to cut off funding to the International Space Station by 2025, but it...

While this has been an especially good week for rocket launches, a potentially record breaking rocket launch to the International...