At 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, eight NASA astronaut candidates will join John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and students from Washington area ...

NASA has selected six technology proposals for continued study under the agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. The proposals selected for Phase 2 of the 2013 NIAC Program address a ...

This story was updated at 3:45 p.m. EST. The proposed 2013 federal budget unveiled by President Barack Obama today (Feb. 13) keeps NASA funding relatively flat next year, but bites deep into the ...

Michael Meyer, lead program scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, second from left, speaks during a panel discussion on "NASA's Mission to the Red Planet" during the NASA Open House, Friday, Jan ...

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NASA has selected 32 of the best Earth images from 2013 and is asking readers to help select one winner. Each week, through April 4, voters can choose their favorite image in a tournament that pit two ...

Lasers are indisputably awesome, and NASA just made them a little more so by zapping a record-breaking 622 Mb of data per second between the moon and earth as a part of its Lunar Laser Communications ...

Never mind the current cold snap in the East or the polar vortex that swept through much of the U.S. in early 2014 -- scientists from NASA and NOAA report that 2013 was one of the 10 hottest years on ...

House bill would give NASA less in fiscal 2014 than the agency received the year before Sequestration generally doesn%27t affect mandatory spending NASA assured of current spending levels at least ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Yesterday, NASA and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration jointly ...

NASA is looking for a rock. It’s got to be out there somewhere — a small asteroid circling the sun and passing close to Earth. It can't be too big or too small. Something 20 to 30 feet in diameter ...