'Dream Come True': NASA Is One Giant Leap For A Georgia Peanut Farmer

Growing up in rural Georgia, Lewis Wooten felt light years away from the long, illustrious career he has built at NASA.

• Jul 1, 2019

PHOTOS: Apollo 11 Mission Images

On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong announced to NASA mission control, "the Eagle has landed."

• Jul 1, 2019

INFOGRAPHIC: Apollo 11 By The Numbers

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 with a mission to land on the moon.

• Jul 1, 2019

VIDEO: The Race To The Moon, USA Vs. USSR

During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space.

• Jul 1, 2019

Apollo 11: 'The Eagle Has Landed'

• Jul 1, 2019
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This Month, You Can See Jupiter And Its Largest Moons With Just Your Binoculars

Jupiter will be clearly visible this month, and those wanting to catch a glimpse of its moons will only need a pair of binoculars.

• Jun 6, 2019

'I Looked And Couldn't Believe It' | NASA Astronaut Reflects On 10 Year Anniversary Of Mission To Make Final Repair To Hubble Space Telescope

Have you ever wondered what it's like to open a hatch aboard a space shuttle and look over the Earth?

• May 17, 2019

NASA's First All-Female Spacewalk Is Delayed Because There Aren't Enough Spacesuits That Fit

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history as the first all-female crew to conduct a spacewalk at the International Space Station, but it was announced on Monday that the historic spacewalk will be delayed because of spacesuit issues.

• Mar 25, 2019

Two Space Station Astronauts Tackling Challenging Spacewalk

Space station astronauts Anne McClain and Nick Hague floated outside the International Space Station for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Friday to install a second set of more powerful lithium-ion batteries in the lab's solar power system.

• Mar 22, 2019

As Space X Launches, Two NASA Astronauts Train To Fly The Dragon For Real

Two NASA astronauts are training to fly the dragon for real, and put the U.S. back in the business of manned space flight.

• Mar 4, 2019

NASA Probes Cruising Earth's Magnetic Field Track Radiation Belts In Space

A NASA mission is entering its final phase. The probes will be brought into lower orbits, and will eventually burn up in the atmosphere.

• Feb 12, 2019

NASA Asks Johns Hopkins For Help Protecting Earth From Asteroids

A team of scientists and engineers from Johns Hopkins have a new mission: save the Earth from an asteroid crash.

• Feb 4, 2019

NASA Says Quadrantid Meteor Shower Peaks Thursday Night

The new year began with the most distant flyby of a planetary object, and it continues with the Quadrantid meteor shower tonight, one of the best annual shows in the night sky, according to NASA.

• Jan 3, 2019

NASA Spacecraft Opens New Year At Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto

The NASA spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto opened the new year at an even more distant world, a billion miles beyond.

• Jan 1, 2019

NASA Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid, Sets Records

A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records.

• Dec 31, 2018

NASA Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Tiny, Icy World Beyond Pluto

A tiny, icy world a billion miles beyond Pluto is getting a New Year's Day visitor.

• Dec 31, 2018

NASA Official Pleads Guilty To Accepting Kickbacks, Stealing

A NASA official who oversaw a nearly $200 million contract at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia has pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks and stealing government funds.

• Dec 12, 2018

WATCH: NASA Lands Unmanned Spacecraft On Mars

Slamming into the thin Martian atmosphere at more than 13,000 mph, NASA's InSight lander pulled off a blazing six-and-a-half minute 77-mile plunge to the surface of Mars Monday, using a huge parachute and then 12 pulsing rocket thrusters to settle to a gentle 5-mph touchdown in a billion-dollar mission to study the red planet's hidden interior.

• Nov 26, 2018

NASA's InSight Lander Successfully Touches Down On Mars

After a six-month voyage from Earth, NASA's InSight Mars lander reached the thin Martian atmosphere Monday afternoon to begin a nail-biting six-and-a-half-minute descent to the surface.

• Nov 26, 2018

A NASA-Funded Study Says Long Trips In Space Could Destroy Astronauts' Stomachs and Cause Cancer

Astronauts may not be able to stomach long voyages into space -- literally speaking.

• Oct 2, 2018

Nasa Image Shows All The Dust, Fires And Storms In The Air In One Day

According to NASA's description of the images, the blue is sea salt, the red is black carbon (like you would see from a fire) and the purple is dust. By looking at the patterns of these three aerosols, you can make out some major weather and climate events: hurricanes, where the blues tightly gather; heavy winds and dust storms in the clouds of purple; and red smudges of carbon over wildfires.

• Aug 25, 2018

NASA Finds 'Water Ice' On The Surface Of The Moon

Scientists have long believed that water ice could exist in the ever-dark recesses at the moon's poles and that belief has finally been confirmed in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Aug. 20.

• Aug 22, 2018

NASA Selects 9 Astronauts For First Crewed Boeing, SpaceX Missions

NASA has tapped nine astronauts to become the first to launch to space from American soil since the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011.

• Aug 3, 2018

NASA Studying Air Pollution Over Maryland Waterways

Turns out unhealthy air, the kind that triggers Code Orange and Code Red days isn't isolated to cities -- it also hangs out over the water.

• Jun 26, 2018

NASA's Record-Breaking Spacewoman Retires As Astronaut

NASA's record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson retired Friday, less than a year after returning from her last and longest spaceflight.

• Jun 16, 2018

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