Happy Birthday, Kennedy Space Center! On July 1, 1962, NASA established the Launch Operations Center — which was later ...

NASA Chandra X-ray telescope data from galaxy cluster Abell 2146 showed a "shockwave that stretches for some 1.6 million ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

NASA formed a panel called the Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group to plan the future mission. I co-chaired the panel, with NASA scientist James B. Garvin, ...

Four volunteers who spent more than a year living in a 1,700-square-foot space created by NASA to simulate the environment on Mars have emerged.. The members of the Crew Health and Performance ...

In 2006, a small, little-known company named Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX, for short — won a NASA contract to ferry cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

The results of a study into thousands of 'slopes' found by NASA on Mars' surface has left scientists surprised. The planet, ...