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Florida teen Kiera Wilmot , 16, deserved some good news after being the target of a racist legal system, arrested and expelled for causing a small explosion during a science experiment.

Image Caption: Pascal Lee and Sgt Andre Pearson conduct "small body" geological sampling in simulated spacesuits while anchored and tethered on a steep boulder slope at Asteroid Hill, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.

Compared with the newest quantum computer from D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia, even the world's most powerful supercomputers are ploddingly slow, The New York Times reports.

Charles Bolden, NASA's chief and a self-described dreamer, says there is a line between dreams and reality when it comes to what the space agency can do, especially in light of current budget constraints.

Kadie Claire Morris, a junior at Decatur High, has been accepted to NASA's Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars program.

That was the farthest total distance for any NASA vehicle driving on a world other than Earth until yesterday.

An artist illustration of a meteor impacting the moon and resulting in an explosion that can be visible from Earth skies.

A photo from the Mars Curiosity Rover reveals what appears to be a small animal or lizard on Mars.

There's a chance that NASA's Kepler space telescope can recover from the malfunction that has halted its wildly successful search for alien planets, mission team members say.

The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point -C. NASA officials reviewed a series of detailed project assessments and authorized the spacecraft's continuation into the development phase.

Solar activity continued on May 14, 2013, as the sun emitted a fourth X-class flare from its upper left limb, peaking at 9:48 p.m. EDT.

The Hurricane Season of the Eastern Pacific Ocean officially begins today, May 15 and the first tropical depression of the season formed.

NASA's TRMM satellite identified areas of heavy rainfall as Cyclone Mahasen made landfall today, May 16, in southern Bangladesh.

NASA's first space shuttle, the test orbiter Enterprise, was named after the fictional starship on Star Trek in response to fans staging a write-in campaign.

The Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket launches at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on April 21.

Are quantum computers about to revolutionise our lives? You might think so now that Google, together with NASA, has bought one from the only organisation that sells them, D-Wave of Burnaby, Canada.

The White House's release of nearly 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans demanding more... Democrats rallied behind President Barack Obama in the long-running, bitter dispute over the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack, ... (more)

To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says his body feels confused and banged-up by the effects of gravity after a five-month stay in space.

The newly discovered planets named Kepler-62e and -f. Scientists using NASA's Kepler telescope have found two distant planets that are in the right place and are the right size for potential life.