NASA

NASA scientists were very surprised at the discovery of a shrimp-like creature living at deep beneath an Antarctic ice sheet.

NASA on Thursday launched the latest in its family of meteorological satellites, adding to a number of spacecraft that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth.

NASA published a satellite image of black smoke covering the northern part of Santiago, Chile following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on Saturday.

NASA officials broke groun near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications.

A Senate science subcommittee clashed with NASA's chief on Wednesday, saying the firm and the White House lacked a clear vision and goal for the program.

Nasa has published the first images from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) which has been scanning the skies since early January.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday said his commitment to NASA was unwavering after his administration's 2011 budget slashed funding to return U.S. astronauts to the moon.

NASA launched its Solar Dynamics Observatory on Thursday morning after a one day delay due to high winds.

The U.S. space agency on Tuesday awarded $50 million in grants to five private firms in a first step to implement President Barack Obama's vision of turning over space transportation to the commercial sector.

NASA will get nearly $6 billion to encourage private companies to launch their own spacecraft according to the US President's new budget proposed today

President Barack Obama has called NASA to cancel the $100 billion program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, and focus instead on new space technologies.

NASA is set to receive a $6 billion fund injection over the next five years in a bid for ocompanies to develop rockets capable of taking astronauts to the International Space Station.

The unfortunate explosion of NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger in January 28, 1986 will be remembered on Friday.

The US space agency NASA has conceded defeat in its battle to free the Spirit rover from its Martian sand trap.

NASA WISE, which stands for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope, launched Monday morning at 9:09 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

NASA has given out a grant to the University of Georgia that will help undergraduate professors to observe and report on the effects of climate change on birds.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven returned Friday, concluding an 11-day mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, bringing astronaut Nicole Stott back to Earth after spending 91 days in space. The shuttle touched down as scheduled at 9:44 a.m. EST under cloudless skies, guided by the commander, Col. Charles O. Hobaugh of the Marines, and the pilot, Capt. Barry E. Wilmore of the Navy.

The shuttle Atlantis successfully blasted off into orbit Monday towards the International Space Station, carrying 15 tons of critical spare parts and equipment. Atlantis and its six-man crew launched as scheduled at 2:28 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission trip's purpose is to deliver equipment, including two gyroscopes, to the International Space Station.

The Atlantis space shuttle has been fueled and is ready for blast off later on Monday for its 11-day mission trip. The Atlantis is scheduled to lift off at 2:28 p.m. ET from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla to the International Space Station.

NASA said Sunday that the weather is expected to be conducive for the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis to launch toward the International Space Station on Monday on a delivery mission.

NASA's Ares 1-X launch has been rescheduled for Wednesday morning after a series of delays that delayed the planned lift-off before noon.