Selfies, Memory Foam & More: Thank NASA For Today's Everyday Technology
For years, NASA has been creating technology for space that ends up enhancing our everyday lives.
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For years, NASA has been creating technology for space that ends up enhancing our everyday lives.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 with a mission to land on the moon.
Fortunately, for Apollo 11 and all of mankind, a young, brilliant MIT software engineer saw a potentially mission-crippling error coming from nearly a million miles away.
NASA's Apollo space program was dedicated to putting American astronauts on the moon.
Growing up in rural Georgia, Lewis Wooten felt light years away from the long, illustrious career he has built at NASA.
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong announced to NASA mission control, "the Eagle has landed."
During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space.
For grownups who dreamed as kids of becoming astronauts -- but who didn't quite make it past space camp -- you may have another chance.
The two-day event includes hands-on, STEM-based research with a focus on Mars.
NASA has selected a local aerospace company to help its astronauts land on the moon by 2024.
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a NASA astronaut with ties to western Pennsylvania will blast off into space.
NASA and the European Space Agency are willing to pay 24 participants nearly $19,000 to spend 60 days in bed.
The new year began with the most distant flyby of a planetary object, and it continues with the Quadrantid meteor shower Thursday night, one of the best annual shows in the night sky, according to NASA.
NASA's new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet's dusty red surface.
NASA's Voyager 2 has become only the second human-made object to reach the space between stars.
NASA announced Thursday that nine US companies, including a Pittsburgh company, are eligible to bid on $2.6 billion worth of contracts over the next 10 years to deliver services to the moon.
After seven months of traveling through space, the NASA InSight lander landed on Mars, where it will begin its permanent residence on Monday.
NASA has landed in Pittsburgh this week with a special exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center.
Despite what your social media feeds are telling you, an asteroid shaped like a skull is not going to zip by Earth this Halloween.
NASA says that two astronauts from the U.S. and Russia are in good condition after an emergency landing following a booster rocket failure minutes after the launch.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem.
Pittsburgh will be leading America when the United States returns to the moon for the first time in 50 years.
An orbital telescope designed to hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has discovered two distant planets at least 49 light-years away.
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.
