WASHINGTON — If the three-month stopgap spending bill now funding the federal government is extended to cover all of 2014, NASA’s Astrophysics Division — along with the rest of NASA’s Science Mission ...

NASA has selected 12 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims to turn science fiction into fact through pioneering technology development.

The year 2014 ranks as Earth's warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. The 10 warmest years in the ...

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There are many great Earth-observing satellites circling the planet these days. Digital Globe's new WorldView 3 has incredible 30-centimeter resolution, and Planet Lab's flock of minisatellites may ...

A NASA-led study of a 2014 magnitude-5.1 earthquake centered in La Habra revealed that the temblor deformed the Earth’s crust across a wider swath of the northern Los Angeles Basin and northern Orange ...

NASA: Orion "is built to take humans farther than they've ever gone before" The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit. But after three long ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data ...