The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars exploration mission, Mars Express, revealed a large extinct volcano on the Martian surface that is battered and deformed.
A $14-million Internet advertising fraud scheme has been brought to a halt by a coalition of American and Estonian authorities, Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for New York's southern district, said during a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Manhattan.
Phobos-Grunt, Russia's space probe to the Martian moon Phobos, is stuck in orbit Wednesday. Officials cite equipment failure as the problem, raising new fears that the probe could release toxic fuel as it falls back towards earth, unless engineers are able to steer it back on track.
NASA officials filmed a former doomsday asteroid in what is one of shortest movies of all time: just six frames long.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth today at 3:28 p.m. PST (6:28 p.m. EST/1128 UTC).
An asteroid is going to be passing very close to Earth this week. What information will astronomers and scientists be able to glean from this rare occasion?
The White House has issued a declaration in response to a petition signed by more than 5000 people, stating that the government has no evidence of extraterrestrial life existing outside earth.
On Tuesday night, astronomers and sky-watchers may get a rare glimpse of an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier. The behemoth is expected to fly by at a distance closer than that between the Earth and the moon.
In a response to an online petition, the White House shot down the popular notion that the U.S. government is covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life.
A group of scientists working with NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a very powerful, fast rotating star that is far younger than others of its type previously discovered.
U.S. residents convinced that the government continues to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life got an official response: No aliens here.
A sample from a moon rock brought to earth by astronauts of NASA's Apollo 15 mission in 1971 was placed on long-term public display at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, AZ, on Saturday.
A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, giving scientists a rare chance for study without having to go through the time and expense of launching a probe, officials said.
NASA recently posted a few photographs taken with the help of high-powered telescopes aboard spacecraft circling the Earth. Check out the images below.
An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is heading toward Earth and will fly by it closer than the moon on Tuesday, providing a rare observing opportunity to scientists, NASA said.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a $2.5 billion rover designed to assess that planet's suitability for life, arrived at its Florida launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned November 25 liftoff, the U.S. space agency said.
A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.
NASA scientists find the more habitual parts of Mars were subterranean where most of the water was warm and wet.
Boeing moves its space shuttle program to Florida and a House Committee discusses the viability of private market for human spaceflight.
An asteroid nearly four Olympic swimming pools across will fly closer than the moon Tuesday, prompting officials to quell worries that the rogue rock will slam into the Earth.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 is scheduled to skirt Earth on Nov. 8, giving astronomers an unparalleled opportunity to make observations about the space rock. Over four hundred yards across, the asteroid is large enough to cause damage on a regional scale if it were to make contact. Luckily, it will just miss Earth, whizzing past at the decidedly cozy distance of 201,700 miles - closer than our own Moon.
Three NASA scientists have been given the go ahead to work on the science fiction invention. Tractor beams will we used to collect interstellar particles but is light years away from .
