You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to last just 90 Martian sols, or 92 Earth days. But the ...

NASA says it is reviewing its network security processes and procedures after a computer break-in exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information about the space agency’s current and ...

NASA's twin Voyager probes launched into space more than 41 years ago. Voyager 1 left a crucial part of the solar system called the heliosphere — the main region of the sun's influence — in August ...

Hubble's designers prepared for gyroscope failure by equipping the observatory with a backup. Unfortunately, when one of Hubble's gyroscopes conked out in early October, the backup didn't work as ...

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., InSight project manager Tom Hoffman reacts to the first image from the Mars InSight lander after its touchdown. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) ...

NASA today is presenting its highest honors — the Distinguished Service Medal and Distinguished Public Service Medal — to employees and contractors from across the agency’s programs, recognizing ...

NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission will set off to explore the sun's atmosphere in summer 2018 It's NASA's first mission to the sun and its outermost atmosphere Wearing a nearly 5-inch coat of ...

2018 has officially been named the fourth hottest year on Earth, according to a new report by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Global temperatures rose 1.5 degrees ...

The Falcon Heavy rocket launch headlined a year filled with marvelous milestones when it comes to navigating and understanding space. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

Slamming into the thin Martian atmosphere at more than 13,000 mph, NASA's InSight lander pulled off a blazing six-and-a-half minute 77-mile plunge to the surface of Mars Monday, using a huge parachute ...

NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting a new launch window that begins May 5, 2018, with ...