Stuck Mars rover makes first move in months

For the first time in seven months, the Mars rover moved. Complete Story...

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Former NASA official sentenced to probation

A former top NASA official was sentenced Friday to three years probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for steering contract money to a private client.

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Countdown begins for NASA's uncertain future

Is America's space effort due for a major course correction? Or is staying the course and sticking with NASA's five-year-old plan to return to the moon the best strategy?

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How to track the ‘wolves of the solar system’

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Apophis is coming.

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Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere

NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.

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Moon crash produces much data, little drama

Scientists said NASA's moon-smashing mission produced enough data on Friday to address questions about lunar water ice — but the crash didn't come close to meeting public expectations as a cosmic fireworks show.

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White powder at NASA HQ not toxic, DC fire says

Authorities say a suspicious white powder found in an envelope at NASA headquarters in Washington is not hazardous.

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Return-to-moon plan gets boost on Capitol Hill

NASA's weakened return-to-the-moon program got a lift Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

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Obama space panel says moon return plan is a no go

A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly.

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NASA adds a day to shuttle launch delay

NASA has delayed the space shuttle Discovery's scheduled launch to the international space station until late Friday at the earliest, in order to give engineers time to study a bad fuel valve sensor.

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Shuttle valve passes troubleshooting test

NASA said a suspect fuel valve on the space shuttle Discovery functioned correctly during tests on Wednesday, meaning there's still a chance for liftoff this week.

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To the moon, NASA? Not on this budget, experts say

NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that has already spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use.

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Ex-top NASA official guilty of ethics violations

A former top NASA official was found guilty Thursday of breaking ethics laws by helping a consulting client get nearly $10 million of the space agency's funds.

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NASA denies new space program is too risky, pricey

Engineers designing NASA's next moon rocket denied Wednesday that the human space flight program dubbed "Constellation" is too expensive, too risky and would unnecessarily delay man's return to space.

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New NASA boss: Astronauts on Mars in his lifetime

NASA's new boss said Tuesday he will be "incredibly disappointed" if people aren't on Mars — or venturing somewhere beyond it — in his lifetime.

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Marshmallow 'moon' marks NASA anniversary

NASA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on the lunar surface with a giant moon pie.

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Senate confirms ex-astronaut Bolden to head NASA

The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the space agency's 40th anniversary celebrations of man's first steps on the moon.

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Learning the lessons of Apollo 11

- Over the three and a half years from July 1969 to December 1972, six teams of astronauts walked on the moon. They went from “We came in peace for all mankind” to the parting words, “We’ll be back.”

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NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol

NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English.

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AP Interview: Ex-NASA head critical of Obama move

Michael Griffin has moved from the administrator's suite atop NASA headquarters in Washington to the small, bare office of a new engineering professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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Uncertain NASA gets familiar former astronaut boss

The nation's turbulent space program will be run by one of its own, a calming well-liked former space shuttle commander.

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Obama picks ex-astronaut to lead NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - President Obama has chosen former astronaut Charles F. Bolden to head NASA. If confirmed by the Senate, Bolden would become the first African-American NASA administrator.

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Obama meets with candidate for NASA job

President Barack Obama met Tuesday with a leading candidate to head NASA.

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Astro_Mike: In space, everyone can hear you tweet

On Twitter, messages of 140 characters may seem confining. Mike Massimino is finding a different type of space even more limiting — outer space.

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White House orders review of NASA space plans

The White House has ordered a complete outside review of NASA's manned space program, including plans to return astronauts to the moon.

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Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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Apparently there was quite a show for some folks at the meteor shower last night in Utah!! They are a lot of fun to see.

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Canadian Trees go zero G - NASA sends of Canadian Trees to test the formation of wood without gravity.

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The NASA rover Spirit, stuck in sand on Mars, tried to move Tuesday for the first time since May. In less than a second, it stopped.

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Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again.

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NASA Probe Discovers Both Water and Man in The Moon!

"NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced Friday. " according to an MSNBC article..

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NASA says it has found a significant amount of frozen water on the moon.

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There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday, and considerable amounts of it.

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Nasa has reported a significant amount of water found on the moon Friday.

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IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world in our solar system.

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Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice.

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Celebrating the four centuries of astronomical advancement since Galileo took his first telescopic view of the heavens, NASA today unveiled this unique view of the heart of our galaxy as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Obs …

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The apocalypse is not scheduled for December 21, 2012, according to NASA.

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Peter Pan would be so happy.

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The odd story of NASA's unused wingless escape vehicle for the International Space Station is finally over.

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NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.

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A small chunk of space trash made an uncomfortably close pass by the International Space Station late Friday, but not close enough to force the astronauts aboard to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats.

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EDITOR'S UPDATE : After studying the latest information on the trajectory of a two-inch piece of space debris that threatens to buzz the International Space Station, NASA has decided to order the six crew member aboard the outpost Station to take refuge tonight in two Russian Soy …

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Unlike all other large Kuiper Belt Objects, which are covered in methane ice and so slightly red in colour, Haumea and its two moons are covered in water ice, giving them a blue tinge. Moreover, Haumea is much denser than water and so must have a rich rocky core.

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A laser-powered robot took a climb up a cable in the Mohave Desert in Wednesday, and pushed ahead the sci-fi inspired notion of a space elevator capable of lifting astronauts, cargo, and even tourists up into orbit.

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Nearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless...is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum.

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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn — by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.

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New Celestial Skymap Three Years in the Making

GREENBELT, MD - A new skymap has been produced that allows astronomers a powerful tool to study and more accurately juxtapose the various celestial objects that comprise the known universe.

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To everyone he knows, Stewart D. Nozette is a brilliant and creative scientist at NASA. He is also ambitious and political, donating many thousands of dollars to campaigns and causes, and has prodded public officials to fund programs he is excited about.

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The first test flight of the Ares I rocket. This one had a live first stage (essentially a shuttle solid rocket booster) and a dummy upper stage made of steel (with weight plates in it to get the mass and CG right).

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