NASA Declares Mars Rover Dead After 8 Months Of Silence
After trying one last time make contact, NASA Wednesday declared its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity dead after a 15-year mission.
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After trying one last time make contact, NASA Wednesday declared its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity dead after a 15-year mission.
The government shutdown may be over but the recovery for furloughed federal employees is just beginning.
While hundreds of federal workers in the Bay Area were fuming Thursday as the nation approached week three of the government shutdown, one group of local employees is getting a little financial relief.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft raced past a frozen remnant of the solar system's birth early New Year's Day, phoned home to confirm a successful flyby and began beaming a treasure trove of pictures and other data to eager scientists waiting back on Earth
NASA has offered to give NBA superstar Steph Curry a tour of one of its lunar labs after the Golden State Warriors guard said on a podcast that he doubts humans landed on the moon.
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry made some news off the basketball court when he recently dropped a bombshell during a podcast, claiming he doesn't believe humans have been to the Moon.
A SpaceX delivery full of Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, following a slight delay caused by a communication drop-out.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday that nine U.S. companies will compete to deliver experiments to the lunar surface.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is swinging by Venus on its unprecedented journey to the sun.
A Delta 2 rocket carrying a satellite designed to measure changes in the earth's ice and vegetation lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base Saturday morning and headed over the Pacific Ocean into orbit.
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.
A NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward the sun on a quest to unlock some of its mysteries by getting closer than any object sent before.
The final countdown has begun for something that UC Berkeley physics professor Stuart Bale has dream about for most of his professional life.
NASA on Friday assigned the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring crew launches back to the U.S.
A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet, scientists reported Wednesday.
A NASA rover on Mars has been knocked out by gigantic dust storm that envelops the planet and blots out the sun.
A woman is suing NASA over a gift she claims was given to her by the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
Scientists reported Thursday that NASA's Curiosity rover has found potential building blocks of life in an ancient Martian lakebed.
Apollo 12 astronaut and artist Alan Bean, who was the fourth person to walk on the moon, has died. Bean is the eighth of 12 Apollo moonwalkers to die.
Uber and NASA announced on Tuesday they're teaming up to simulate flying taxis in urban areas.
NASA's newest Mars explorer has busted out of Earth orbit and is zooming toward the red planet.
A robotic geologist armed with a hammer and quake monitor rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, aiming to land on the red planet and explore its mysterious insides.
It likely won't get any easier for the seventh planet in our solar system as a new report has confirmed that Uranus does actually stink like bad gas.
An asteroid came alarmingly close to striking the Earth on April 15, just hours after the large space rock was spotted flying through the solar system.
A newly-discovered space rock will pass within 39,000 miles of Earth on Friday afternoon. That's less than one-fifth the distance to the moon.
