In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

On August 25, 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft measured drastic changes in radiation levels, more than 11 billion miles from the Sun. Anomalous cosmic rays, which are cosmic rays trapped in the outer ...

NASA’s Opportunity, which has been traversing the Martian surface dutifully since landing in January 2004, has come out of an expected three-week radio silence in self-imposed standby mode. NASA's ...

NASA has issued a sources sought notice for the next Simulation and Software Technology Contract, currently held by L-3. The space agency is interested in procurement approach, small business and ...

NASA-supported university projects broaden horizons for small satellite technology in order to train students in this new and important field of work.

"As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary, ...

Rep. Paul Broun said NASA and NOAA were 'inconsiderate' for not providing testimony in advance. Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA felt the wrath of Georgia ...

In our cover story on the local private spaceflight pioneers at Armadillo Aerospace, we mentioned that the team’s contract work with NASA included testing a set of legs for a lunar lander based on an ...

The federal government shutdown has sent 97 percent of NASA's employees home and canceled other space agency activities.

To ensure that current and future Mars exploration missions will be able to communicate their data to Earth efficiently, NASA is in the early planning stages for a new orbiter mission that would ...