NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has ...

Curious how a device designed to produce fuel and oxygen on Mars transformed into a source of clean energy right here on Earth? The 2010 edition of NASA’s annual Spinoff publication is now available ...

Many of NASA’s computational innovations were developed to help explore space, but the public can download them for applications that benefit us right here on Earth. The agency’s latest software ...

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission can provide valuable information about the world's forests for wildlife scientists. Scientists researching forest carnivores such as ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

NASA sees potential value in cubesat swarms collecting data via distributed sensors. Credit: NASA NASA’s first small spacecraft missions were in 1972 and 1973, when it launched Pioneer 10 and 11.

In October 1957, the Soviet Union took the world by surprise when it launched Sputnik, mankind’s first artificial satellite. The United States responded with the Apollo Program, which landed ...

NASA had a problem in 1961. The agency had selected a large area in Hancock County, Mississippi, to build its propulsion test site. Unfortunately, building the much-needed site would require ...

Editor’s note: several days ago we posted a final (October 2005) draft of this report. We have since come across a complete copy of the final version of the report (November 2005) which has recently ...

PARIS — The launch manifests of NASA’s two commercial cargo service providers will bump up against one another in December when Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Orbital Sciences Corp. are ...

Sunita Williams' Retirement: The Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, renowned for her contributions to space exploration, has officially retired from NASA. After nearly thirty years of active ...