NASA wasn't born with a rocket in its hand — it was forged in the heat of the Cold War, when the race to space became a global obsession. Since its founding, the agency has transformed from a scrappy ...

The chairman of a congressional subcommittee examining NASA’s aeronautics spending plan is asking whether deliberate national strategy rather than budget pressure should guide the federal government’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NASA has asked our fellow Earthlings just how well they know their neighbourhood - and by that they mean our Solar System. The US space ...

Some of the glorified careers we hear about as kids include firefighters who save lives, doctors who cure illnesses, and last, but not certainly not least, astronauts who venture to space. If you grew ...

If you have a taste for adventure to go where few have gone before, then you might want to sign up to be a NASA astronaut. On December 14, for the first time in four years, NASA began accepting ...

Love quizzes? NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is holding one from the International Space Station, which orbits 220 miles above the Earth's surface. Kelly, who began his historic, year-long residence at ...

On Sep 26, 2022, NASA’s DART crashed into the tiny moonlet Dimorphos of the asteroid system Didymos. The DART spacecraft was successful in altering the orbit of the target asteroid Dimorphos. A new ...

Big things sometimes come in small packages. In the latest installment of the highly-successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," the title character, played by Paul Rudd ...

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3. In 2001, NASA sent this unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars in search of signs of water and volcanic activity on the surface. 7. The mission statement of NASA is "to understand and protect our home ...