Water filtration bottles, comfortable car seats and remote medical monitoring devices all have one thing in common — they all have benefited from NASA technology. These products are featured in ...

At 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, eight NASA astronaut candidates will join John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and students from Washington area ...

Never mind the current cold snap in the East or the polar vortex that swept through much of the U.S. in early 2014 -- scientists from NASA and NOAA report that 2013 was one of the 10 hottest years on ...

Michael Meyer, lead program scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, second from left, speaks during a panel discussion on "NASA's Mission to the Red Planet" during the NASA Open House, Friday, Jan ...

This story was updated at 3:45 p.m. EST. The proposed 2013 federal budget unveiled by President Barack Obama today (Feb. 13) keeps NASA funding relatively flat next year, but bites deep into the ...

Lasers are indisputably awesome, and NASA just made them a little more so by zapping a record-breaking 622 Mb of data per second between the moon and earth as a part of its Lunar Laser Communications ...

NASA has set a new record for data transmission to and from the moon with a 622Mbps transfer carried over laser beams. The space agency used pulsed lasers to transmit data between a ground station in ...

NASA is looking for a rock. It’s got to be out there somewhere — a small asteroid circling the sun and passing close to Earth. It can't be too big or too small. Something 20 to 30 feet in diameter ...

NASA has selected 32 of the best Earth images from 2013 and is asking readers to help select one winner. Each week, through April 4, voters can choose their favorite image in a tournament that pit two ...

NASA is busy readying its considerable arsenal of scientific instruments, spacecraft and rovers for a close encounter with comet C/2013 A1 on Sunday, Oct 19. The comet's closest approach with a ...

House bill would give NASA less in fiscal 2014 than the agency received the year before Sequestration generally doesn%27t affect mandatory spending NASA assured of current spending levels at least ...