NASA News

Washington, November 27 : NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic microquasar.

There is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station, a top Russian space official said Thursday.

NASA is believed to have found strong evidence that there was once life on Mars.

An unmanned NASA Predator aircraft equipped with an infrared imaging sensor has flown over large areas burned by two California wildfires to help the Forest Service assess damage, the administration said Tuesday.

Space shuttle Atlantis is headed for a landing, weather permitting. The shuttle's seven astronauts hope to wrap up their 11-day flight Friday.

It was stone age by today's standards, but a milestone in the development of what was to become the internet in Australia.

The MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Super Typhoon Nida early on Nov.

KEY climate change measures are tracking near or beyond worse-case scenarios predicted just two years ago, according to a science update drawing on more than 200 recently published studies.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies , for those bodies' refusal - for nearly three years - to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew are expected to return to Earth on Friday, Nov.

NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., are preparing to launch the most advanced infrared astronomy probe to date - the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

The Downey City Council plans to meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday in open session to discuss an agreement that could lead to Tesla Motors locating an assemblyvline in the city.

In the chronicles of UFO oddness, there's been a long-standing oddity a ' some say folklore, others deem it reality.

Astronaut and Mississippi native Fred Haise Jr. will receive NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award during a ceremony Dec.

It's time for Atlantis and its seven astronauts to leave the International Space Station.

Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, IA filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies , for those bodies' refusal - for nearly three years - to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal a ' or if they hear it at all.

DOWNEY, Calif. - Tesla Motors is close to a deal to build an electric car factory at the site of a former NASA manufacturing plant in this blue-collar city south of Los Angeles, Mayor Mario Guerra said Tuesday.

A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object -- called a neutron star -- left behind by the explosion is seen spewing out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula.

A new detailed map of Mars shows what was most likely a vast ocean in the north and valleys around the equator, suggesting that the planet once had a humid, rainy climate, according to research published on Monday.