A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

Dr. Arne Croell of UAH earned NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for groundbreaking research in crystallography crucial to space technology.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes, and cosmic chance. The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing ...

SALT LAKE CITY –The head of NASA’s science directorate said the agency remains committed to using small satellites to carry out a variety of missions, although those plans face uncertain budgets. In a ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its cruise to explore Jupiter’s mysterious ice moon, Europa. On this path, it clicked a spectacular image of a starfield and Uranus. This cosmic image, shared by ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is one of two missions NASA selected Feb. 5 for its Earth System Explorer program. Credit: Lanteris Space Systems WASHINGTON — NASA has selected two Earth ...

For deep-space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, one deceptively simple question drives some of NASA’s most complex engineering challenges: How do you keep enough fuel cold—and stable—long enough ...