WASHINGTON — NASA may decide to launch its own Mars mission in 2016 if ongoing negotiations over a European-led robotic expedition fall apart, the lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program ...

"We all have a thirst for wonder," American astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his sci-fi novel Contact. "It's a deeply human quality." And it's partly thanks to this "thirst" that NASA had the space game ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The year 2016 was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and ...

Another year, another broken temperature record. As early data predicted, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have now reported that globally, 2016 was the warmest year ...

NASA selected 55 student teams from across the nation to participate in the 2015-2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, to be held April 13-17 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

NASA announced on Wednesday that in 2016, Earth experienced the hottest surface temperatures in modern history. Separate, independent analysis at NOAA provided the same conclusion. This makes the ...

NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA released their best photos of 2016, featuring images of astronauts, missions, celestial events and other moments of everyday life in the space agency. NASA's highlights include ...

Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and NOAA. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new ...

NASA and Boeing are revising the Starliner spacecraft contract to reduce the number of missions from six to four, the U.S.