Endeavour Meets Discovery In Advance Of Its Move To LA
NASA's retired shuttles are trading spaces. In a rare nose-to-nose encounter, Discovery and Endeavour met Thursday at Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA's retired shuttles are trading spaces. In a rare nose-to-nose encounter, Discovery and Endeavour met Thursday at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA says its surviving Mars rover Opportunity has reached the rim of Endeavour crater after a nearly three-year trek across the surface of the red planet.
Scientists are getting a closer look at what appears to be a "groovy" asteroid passing through our solar system.
NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a towering mountain inside a 96-mile-wide crater to search for evidence that the region once had conditions capable of supporting microbial life, project officials announced Friday.
NASA says its Dawn spacecraft is preparing to study the massive asteroid Vesta after being captured into its orbit during the weekend.
Complaining about the shuttles not doing everything they're advertised to do, is a bit like complaining about the talking dog, because it speaks with an accent.
Whew, that was close. An asteroid the size of a tour bus streaked harmlessly past Earth on Monday, passing within 7,600 miles.
A new report says significant challenges remain before NASA can launch its next rover to Mars later this year.
Spirit, the scrappy robot geologist that captivated the world with its antics on Mars before getting stuck in a sand trap, is about to meet its end after six productive years.
Authorities have arrested a woman accused of trying to sell a moon rock for $1.7 million.
NASA has chosen six teachers, two from California, to ride on a flying observatory that studies black holes and the formation of stars.
The first batch of data from a NASA mission to map the entire sky has been released to scientists and anyone with access to the Internet.
Endeavour will be permanently housed at the California Science Center after its final mission at the end of March.
NASA engineers are putting the finishing touches on the next rover to Mars before shipping it off to Florida for launch later this year.
The prospect of ever hearing from the stuck Mars rover Spirit is fading after it failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth.
A high-resolution 3-D camera that "Avatar" director James Cameron was helping to build for NASA's next Mars rover won't fly after all.
A team of scientists advising NASA on where in the solar system to explore next has come up with a wish list.
NASA says it looks like the rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite is in the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt.
NASA has picked a new launch date for its newest Earth-orbiting satellite more than a week after a glitch led to a last-minute scrub.
Layoffs that have begun at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may leave as many as 200 scientists, engineers and other workers out of a job.
NASA says the launch of an Earth-observing satellite from California has been postponed because of a problem with ground equipment.
The launch of an Earth-observation satellite has been delayed to no earlier than Friday to give engineers time to troubleshoot a problem.
NASA is set to launch its latest Earth-orbiting satellite on a $424 million mission to analyze airborne grit spewed by volcanoes, forest fires, smokestacks and tailpipes.
A NASA spacecraft zipped past a comet half the size of Manhattan in a Valentine's Day rendezvous that scientists hope will shed light on these icy solar system bodies.
A NASA spacecraft is ready to get up close and personal with its comet sweetheart.
