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NASA is mostly getting an unpaid vacation this week, as the federal government shutdown has resulted in the space agency's shuttering - except for Mission Control in Houston, which is keeping the astronauts in orbit afloat. The shutdown is an unpleasant birthday gift on the 55th anniversary of NASA's first operational status, on October 1, 1958.
3D printing is on its way towards revolutionizing the production of physical goods here on Earth, so why not test it out in space as well? That's the thinking behind NASA's partnership with Made in Space, which is planning on launching the first 3D printer to space in 2014.
NASA has found water in the soil on the surface of Mars in the first scoop of soil analyzed by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. The exciting results were published in the journal Science on Thursday.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched its official account on the social network Instagram, where it will share pictures and videos related to its missions, experiments and space, aeronautics and astrophysics projects.
It's a space engineer's worst nightmare — losing contact with your spacecraft — and it looks like it just happened to NASA. The government space agency has officially put an end to its Deep Impact mission after losing contact with the space probe in August.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is conducting a feasibility study on sending snake robots to space. Using the legless reptile as a physical model, the researchers at the SINTEF Research Institute in Norway and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology are plotting a way to utilize robotic versions of the beast to explore the various nooks and crannies of Mars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) captured Tropical Storm Ingrid formed in the Gulf of Mexico on a three-dimensional video, which showed the cyclone’s impact on the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tamaulipas.
After months or years of false positives form various sources, NASA itself has announced that Voyager 1 truly has left our solar system. Voyager 1 is the first and only object made by humans to ever drift beyond our star system into the great beyond.
NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has completed its longest trek yet, according to CBS News, driving 464 feet to the top of Panorama Point, where it took photographs of Waypoint 1, a collection of interesting rocks en route to the vehicle's final destination: Mount Sharp, a three-mile-high mountain.
The LADEE moon mission, which cost NASA $280 million, will investigate the moon’s atmosphere and how dust behaves above its silver surface.
The goal of reducing the cost of space hardware looks more attainable now as NASA successfully conducted a hot-fire test on a 3D-printed rocket engine component, the agency confirmed in a press release.
It's hard for researchers to gauge what's going on in the long-term with the heavenly bodies. But now, scientists in Brazil have found a solar twin to the sun that may help shed light on just that. Approximately 250 light-years away, the star named HIP 102152 is a virtual match for our own sun. Sitting in the constellation Capricornus, the star is referred to as a "solar twin" for the degree to which it's identical to our planet. However unlike the Sun, this star is 8.2 billion years old. Since our sun is 4.6 billion years old, scientists believe they'll be able to learn more about what's in store for our own star as it ages in the coming eons.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced new plans to capture and re-direct a near-Earth asteroid, and is taking proposals to figure out the best way to do it.
Have you ever wondered how stars are born? And no, we're not talking about celebrity stars here but those twinkling celestial bodies you look up to every night.
This weekend, technicians located in Arizona plan on starting the steps towards building a giant mirror glass that will be part of a new telescope that is expected to have better resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope.
