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NASA is all set to come up with a $30 billion rocket that will eventually carry astronauts to the Mars, said the agency on Wednesday.

NASA's endangered James Webb Space Telescope project has survived a funding vote in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.

Hundreds of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles reported observing a dazzling mysterious bright display in the night sky on Wednesday. Authorities said it was most likely a meteor sighting.

A research team from NASA has created high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath a desert in Northern Kuwait by using radar sounding technology that provides more accurate idea of underground water levels.

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

NASA has unveiled the new design plan of an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

While on its mission to study rocks on Mars to get clues to an early wet environment, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is examining second rock since its landing on the new site, the Endeavour crater, in August.

NASA is working on a 320-feet multi-billion-dollar Space Launch System (SLS), which is also the world's largest rocket, aiming to explore nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s.

The future of the James Webb Space Telescope project was almost in peril until Wednesday when the U.S. Senate proposed to revive the $6.5 billion instrument.

In a joint press release, two U.S. Senators accused the Obama administration of inflating the projected costs for NASA's Space Launch System in an attempt to kill development of the program.

Two separate reports recently confirmed ice covering the Arctic Ocean is melting at an alarmingly fast pace.

NASA unveils the next generation launch system rockets, which will be designed to send astronauts into deep space.

Three Nasa astronauts will be returning to Earth on Friday after spending more than five months on the International Space Station (ISS).

Scientists have inferred the existence of an “invisible” planet, from the influence it’s exerting on another planet.

Astronomers have observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby cool brown dwarf that may indicate a massive storm ever seen on a planet.

The Russian Space Agency on Tuesday announced that it is postponing the launch of the latest space station crew to Nov. 12. This gives NASA reasons to worry, since the situation is such that NASA itself has no space shuttles to take the astronauts to the International Space Station, and it relies completely on Russia for the same.

NASA has released new data from its orbiting Fermi Gamma-Ray Large Area Telescope showing 1,873 objects shining with the highest-energy form of light.

A star is brutally attacking its close-orbiting planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times stronger than what Earth receives from the sun, a new study has found.

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is delaying the launch of the next manned Soyuz mission until Nov. 12 because of a recent accident involving a supply ship.

NASA has started to take steps towards filling its Space Shuttle void as it announces a new partnership with a private firm to launch a new commercial rocket mission.

A defunct satellite poised to fall back to Earth will make its final plunge during the last week of September, NASA officials say.