"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 ...

NASA's new "mixtape" is light on music, but heavy on groundbreaking scientific research. The organization's Goddard Space Flight Center just dropped the tape -- in the form of a YouTube video -- that ...

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 on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-REx to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and – in a US space ...

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 ...

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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The year 2016 was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and ...

NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA released their best photos of 2016, featuring images of astronauts, missions, celestial events and other moments of everyday life in the space agency. NASA's highlights include ...

An open-source cloud computing project, known as OpenStack, was developed by NASA and Rackspace Inc. to standardize the data on NASA websites. (NASA Photo) When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the ...

Last year was Earth's warmest on record since at least 1880, two federal agencies announced Wednesday. Last year's global average surface temperature eclipsed previous highs set in 2014 and 2015. In ...

Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and NOAA. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new ...

NASA announced on Wednesday that in 2016, Earth experienced the hottest surface temperatures in modern history. Separate, independent analysis at NOAA provided the same conclusion. This makes the ...