Over the past week, NASA officials have had to fight Congress tooth-and-nail over the Obama administration's 2013 budget request, which gives the space agency $17.7 billion in funding, a $59 million drop from 2012. The funding reduction has slowed progress on both of NASA's two latest programs.
This is the largest star-forming region near the Milky Way galaxy.
The Geneva-based trade body will uphold a ruling that Boeing got billions in dollars in unfair subsidies from the U.S. government, Reuters reported.
The World Trade Organization has broadly upheld a ruling that Boeing Co (BA.N) took billions of dollars of unfair subsidies, breathing new life into an epic trade spat that has already faulted European aid to Airbus, people familiar with the matter said.
Angry Birds Space, a video game based on the popular Angry Birds franchise, is the latest tool NASA is using to teach people about space all while flining birds to crush green pigs.
Rovio Entertainment is releasing its new Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Space, on March 22, and the new game was announced from the International Space Station - the first announcement of its kind from space.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 made headlines and set panic worldwide this week after NASA astronomers announced the 15-story-wide asteroid is expected to nearly skim the Earth on Feb 15.
There is much buzz about asteroid 2012 DA14, which is set to closely pass Earth next February but won't hit it. Even though NASA has said that the asteroid is not going to slam into Earth, doomsday sayers are still somewhat in a panic because the near-Earth asteroid is passing our planet too closely.
A solar storm expected to hit Earth on Thursday morning was caused by a massive solar flare that occurred earlier in the week. But what exactly is a solar storm?
Asteroid 2012 DA14, a near Earth asteroid, will not hit Earth in 2013 but will come pretty close, according to NASA researchers. On Feb.15, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass Earth at a distance of about 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles), which Discover Magazine said is well beneath many of the Earth's own orbiting satellites.
A mammoth geomagnetic storm, apparently the biggest in last five years, is expected to hit the Earth’s surface Thursday.
The largest solar flare in five years is headed toward Earth and could cause problems, according to NASA.
NASA will launch five rockets in five minutes later in March to study the high-altitude jet stream.
When at least 80 tornadoes rampaged across the United States, from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, last Friday, it was more than is typically observed during the entire month of March, tracking firm AccuWeather.com reported on Monday.
Thicker sea ice is melting faster than thinner ice, a finding that brings new worry over the future of the Arctic.
British scientists have developed a system to help protect navigation and communications satellites from potentially devastating solar storms, they said on Friday.
NASA said hackers stole employee credentials and gained access to mission-critical projects last year in 13 major network breaches that could compromise U.S. national security.
A stolen NASA laptop contained security codes to the International Space Station. It was one of 48 laptops stolen between April 2009 and April 2011.
When and where to watch the Mars opposition, when the Red Planet will be at its closest to Earth in over two years, online, via live stream.
NASA said hackers broke into its computer systems 13 times last year, stealing employee credentials and gaining access to mission-critical projects in breaches that could compromise U.S. national security.
Significant declines in perennial Arctic sea ice over the past decade may be intensifying a chemical reaction that leads to deposits of toxic mercury, a NASA-led study showed on Thursday.
Faced with deep budget cuts, NASA is restructuring its Mars exploration program in order to scrap up funds for a possible robotic mission to the red planet between 2018 and 2020.
