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The project between the telecom giant and federal space agency plunks down $500,000 on research that's overdue.

"Right now, it's about an eight-month mission," NASA administrator Charlie Bolden told reporters. "We'd like to cut that in half."

NASA has announced a $2.25 million prize for anyone who can successfully design and build 3-D printed habitats for extraterrestrial colonies.

The three ISS crew members waiting to come home get a boost from the corrected orbit.

A NASA experiment suggests Europa's distinctive striated appearance may be a result of salt from an underground ocean seeping up to the surface.

The failed resupply mission by a Russian cargo ship triggered a new schedule for spacecraft traffic to and from the International Space Station.

Before its planned demise last week, NASA's Messenger gathered crucial data that is now helping scientists shed light on the planet's past.

Congressional critics say the Earth-studies programs run by NASA have contributed a great deal to scientists’ understanding of climate change.

The latest photos, taken by New Horizons' telescopic imager, show bright and dark features on the dwarf planet's surface.

NASA successfully completed flight tests of its morphing-wing technology, which could help reduce fuel costs.

Nearly 3,000 tons of space debris, a collection of defunct parts of old satellites and spacecraft, is currently believed to be orbiting Earth.

The complete footage, which is nearly two hours long, contains stunning, crystal clear images of Earth from 250 miles above.

According to a panel of high-ranking NASA scientists, "definitive evidence" of alien life could be found in the next 20 to 30 years.

The fourth edition of the annual event is set to witness the involvement of participants from over 160 nations.

The rover, trudging on the surface of Mars since 2004, is now the only man-made object to complete a marathon on another celestial body.

NASA said it will select an asteroid for the mission in 2019, about a year before launching the unmanned spacecraft.

Russia's Soyuz spacecrafts are currently the only means of transport for astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

A new software application allows amateur astronomers to help NASA increase the frequency of detection of potentially threatening asteroids.

The head of the U.S Senate subcommittee overseeing NASA says the agency's spending on space missions has fallen in recent years.

The saline ocean under Jupiter's moon Ganymede might hold more water than there is on all of Earth.

Forced to ration its leftover plutonium-238 stockpile, NASA announced that it would not be using nuclear fuel for the next Discovery mission.