WASHINGTON — Breaking with its tradition of not commenting on pending legislation, NASA took to the blogosphere July 17 to blast the $16.6 billion NASA budget the House Appropriations commerce, ...

“[O]peration of the Space Shuttle, and all human spaceflight, is a developmental activity with high inherent risks … The Space Shuttle is not now, nor has it ever been, an operational vehicle. We ...

When you think of stars, you probably imagine massive, burning balls of fire much like our sun, but there are stars out there in space which you could actually stand on and not be burnt to a crisp.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. They might be best known for space travel, but the folks at NASA are ...

NASA has created a new open government blog, which the space agency says should increase transparency, encourage research collaboration and enable citizen participation in NASA missions. The new blog ...

MAVEN was conducting routine operations, passing behind Mars in its normal orbit, when the communication failure occurred. It’s not uncommon for spacecraft to lose contact when they pass behind a ...

Science fiction movies have spoiled us on high definition views of our planetary neighbors, but real-life photographs with equal jaw-dropping potential are exceedingly rare. That's what makes NASA's ...

NASA has recently released a new version of ‘Black Marble’, also known as ‘Earth City Lights’ or ‘Earth at Night’. The new version is based on 2016 data. The last time they published it was in 2012.