On July 4, 2005, NASA executed a bold experiment in deep space: a spacecraft traveling faster than any bullet crashed into ...

NASA released an image taken on Mars of a crater that looks like an alien head. The name that the agency chose for the image was "Chryse Alien Head." If this was any other agency it could be taken as ...

NASA said Thursday that engineers have uncovered new safety concerns with the space shuttle's heat shield and fuel system, problems that will keep the shuttle Discovery from launching as planned next ...

NASA is canceling its contract with a California-based behavior consultant at the end of June, but said it is not abandoning its culture change initiative. Behavioral Science Technology of Ojai, Calif ...

NASA is set to launch the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), another critical link in the development of a global ...

mission. The 2005 MRO will carry six primary instruments that will greatly enhance the search for evidence of water, take images of objects about the size of a beach ball, and search for future ...

It is possible to think of what has happened to NASA over the past year and particularly to its implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration as a play in three acts — with its ending not yet ...

NASA considered three redesigns to replace a long piece of foam insulation on the space shuttle's external tank where a chunk broke off during the launch of Discovery, according to NASA officials and ...

According to Isakowitz, in crafting this new budget – one designed to refocus the agency on an exploration footing, great pains were taken to avoid creating a situation where a “balloon payment” would ...

A single photograph taken during Huygens’ 2005 descent onto Titan still puzzles scientists, revealing river-like channels ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is joining with several companies in an effort to interest students in science and mathematics careers. NASA announced Wednesday it is partnering with ...

A new NASA study has found that in 2005 the Arctic replaced very little of the thick sea ice it normally loses and replenishes each year. Replenishment of this thick, perennial sea ice each year is ...