NASA

2017 was a great year for NASA, these are just some of the research, findings, and event highlights from the year.

NASA astronaut Ron Garan reflects on his time on the International Space Station and what the next 50 years hold for Earth.

NASA meticulously recorded astronauts during the Apollo 11 moon landing and other missions during the Space Race.

This year, organizers are trying to collect funding to sculpt a John Glenn statue that will be placed in front of John Glenn Post Office in Glenn's birthplace, Cambridge, Ohio.

An international team of astronomers have measured the precise magnetic field properties close to a black hole in our own Milky Way galaxy and what they found might change everything we know about these mysterious phenomenon in space.

Elon Musk shared photographs from the last time both the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft flew on a mission.

The fires in California are burning so strong and producing smoke clouds large enough to see from space.

A new trajectory means the mission to uncover core facts about the asteroid belt will happen sooner than planned.

NASA has released a simulation of a planetary body that collided with Earth during the early days of it's formation which delivered precious metals such as gold and platinum.

The International Space Station turned 19 years old on Wednesday.

To withstand the harsh conditions of space, which are very different from Earth, the space telescope is being put through a large number of tests for its hardiness.

NASA fired up some old thrusters on the back of the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in 1980. Despite a 37 year gap between uses, the thrusters work perfectly.

The Juno craft has been orbiting Jupiter for more than a year now and it's taken some incredible photos of the giant.

NASA created simulations that anyone can use to see how climate change conditions will impact sea level.

It has seven new instruments and different scientific objectives, but NASA’s upcoming mission to Mars is also similar to its predecessor in many ways.

Apple might be leasing Chrysler's former proving grounds to test its autonomous vehicle technology, report says.

Scientists have combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to observe a possible never-seen-before particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around us that could help understanding Earth's magnetosphere.

Two young earthworm offspring were found in an experiment that uses NASA-provided Mars-like soil to grow plants that could aid human survival outside Earth.

An asteroid considered "potentially hazardous" by NASA is set to skim the Earth’s atmosphere just days before Christmas.

A flat-Earth believer will blast himself into the skies on Saturday in self-made rocket to prove the planet is not round. Here's how to watch the event live.

NASA's weather monitoring spacecraft has technological upgrades that should improve stability and provide three times better accuracy.