NASA implemented extensive fire experiments aboard unmanned spacecraft following their ISS missions. The Saffire tests ...

In June 2016, NASA carried out one of the most unusual experiments in the history of spaceflight. Instead of protecting a ...

"We all have a thirst for wonder," American astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his sci-fi novel Contact. "It's a deeply human quality." And it's partly thanks to this "thirst" that NASA had the space game ...

A half-year has passed since astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully inflated a new habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM. On Tuesday, the space agency ...

Nasa's plans to send humans back to the Moon and possibly even further have received a huge boost after the US Congress decided to fund the space agency with an "extraordinary" budget for 2016. But ...

NASA's Juno is now poised to shine a spotlight on the origins and interior structure of the largest planet in our solar system. As we wait for Juno's first close-up images of Jupiter (to be taken Aug.

Usually, NASA updates the world on global climate trends after the end of each calendar year, but this year, in light of extraordinary events, scientists hopped on a teleconference to update members ...

Is NASA trying to cover up a UFO sighting? Space conspiracy theorists are accusing NASA of cutting a live stream from the International Space Station just as an unidentified object comes into view.

With a new presidential administration promising to review its human spaceflight activities, NASA on Thursday continued to signal a willingness to consider alternatives to its exploration systems—the ...

NASA satellite imagery showed that Typhoon Chaba's eye had closed as the storm weakened between Oct. 3 and Oct. 4. NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and ...

There are only 45 active NASA astronauts in the world today — and fewer than 300 former ones since the organization's inception in 1958. But it's a highly sought-after job. In 2016, a whopping 18,300 ...