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Nearly 50 years after he started his career with NASA in the field of planetary and climate research, one of NASA's greatest and brightest decided it was time to step away in order to take up the fight against global warming.
NASA scientists hoping to improve their technological ability to monitor volcanoes decided to monitor one of the largest volcanoes in Costa Rica.
The budget sequester could cause delays for the planned NASA manned flight in 2017.
NASA has a plan to hitch a ride with the Starship Enterprise, as it warps through U.S. theaters in "Star Trek Into Darkness." The space agency's 30-sec. trailer provides viewers a brief showcase of NASA's accomplishments and a taste of space adventures still to come.
What does Earth's moon and several of the larger asteroids hovering around our solar system have in common? Well, according to NASA, they've both been blasted under a bombardment of asteroids in the past.
If the meteor that recently struck the Russian city of Chelyabinsk had you worried, this news is not going to help your situation. A Tuesday hearing in DC had members of Congress asking NASA, White House, and Air Force officials what was being done in response to the threat of "near-Earth" asteroids.
With all of the recent talk about asteroids lately, the recent talk indicates that the day when outer space asteroids will be able to be mined by robots may not be that far off.
A new map out of the European Space Agency's Planck mission shows that our universe is slightly different than we previously thought. Namely, it looks like the universe is not only older, but is expanding at a slower rate as well.
For a while, it looked like Voyager 1 might have hit another milestone in space exploration - interstellar space - but a revised outlook states there's still some ways to go. The probe, launched by NASA back in 1977, is indeed still in our solar system, NASA has stated.
Scientists from the Herschel space observatory have found some of the youngest stars to have ever been observed by man. The insights gained by looking at these "protostars" should help scientists better understand star formation, and consequently, the life cycle of our very own sun.
NASA and other space experts took to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology stage recently, and their remarks about possible asteroid doomsday scenarios are a double-edged sword. On one hand, most are confident that no asteroid will strike the Earth in the next century. On the other, it's going to take a lot of money to prevent - something that seems out of reach thanks to the recent budget cuts.
Jupiter's mysterious "hot spots" might finally be able to be explained. A NASA scientist and his team have published a paper stating that these cloudless regions near Jupiter's equator are caused by a Rossby wave - something that exists here on Earth as well.
NASA researchers preparing for a spacecraft's flyby of Pluto say the distant dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system may have more moons than previously thought
After 141 days aboard the International Space Station, three astronauts are scheduled to return to Earth Thursday night and their landing will be streamed live.
NASA is preparing to hold a news conference to discuss the findings of the Curiosity Rover's analysis of Martian rocks, the conference will be live streamed here.
