WASHINGTON — Work on a new 10-year plan for U.S. planetary exploration is expected to get underway next year and wrap up in time to influence the program of robotic landers, orbiters and probes NASA ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — NASA is seeking to encourage private companies to assist in identifying threatening asteroids, proving the utility of on-orbit refueling spacecraft and establishing new cooperative ...

NASA has selected six technology proposals for continued study under the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. The proposals selected for Phase 2 of the 2013 NIAC Program address a ...

Lasers are indisputably awesome, and NASA just made them a little more so by zapping a record-breaking 622 Mb of data per second between the moon and earth as a part of its Lunar Laser Communications ...

Update for August 30, 2013 - The fire is over 201,00 acres as of 6 am this morning, Aug. 30, 2013 with containment at 32%. More than 40,000 acres of that fire have burned within Yosemite National Park ...

NASA is looking for a rock. It’s got to be out there somewhere — a small asteroid circling the sun and passing close to Earth. It can't be too big or too small. Something 20 to 30 feet in diameter ...

NASA is busy readying its considerable arsenal of scientific instruments, spacecraft and rovers for a close encounter with comet C/2013 A1 on Sunday, Oct 19. The comet's closest approach with a ...

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel airborne mission known as HS3 wrapped up for the 2013 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season at the end of September, and had several highlights. HS3 will return ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Yesterday, NASA and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration jointly ...

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years ...