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NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD – Why is NASA's Commercial Crew Program to develop private human transport ships to low Earth orbit important? That's the question I posed to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden when ...

In tomorrow night's episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, host Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a tour in the Spaceship of the Imagination is headed to the hot and hellish landscape of Venus and to Earth's ancient "Gree...

From a huge new Mars crater to a new supernova, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 31, 2014.

The This Week At NASA crew is on a short mid-year hiatus -- but we thought we'd leave you with a quick look back at some of the big and exciting news featured so far in 2014 on This Week...

This Sunday night (June 1), the Fox TV series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" will send viewers to Earth's neighbor to learn about the greenhouse effect.

Red tape and a moderate earthquake did not deter a private group from meeting its goal of making contact with a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft that has been slumbering in deep space since 1997.

So far this year, 288 cases of measles in the United States have been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 288. And mind you, that's only through the first five months of the year (to May 23)...

Before Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they went to Hawaii to train on the Big Island's lunar landscapes.

The new Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite is now in the hands of the engineers who will fly the spacecraft and ensure the steady flow of data on rain and snow for the life of the mission. The of...

The exact number of stars is impossible to know because we aren't sure how big the universe is.

The most impressive regions of the Milky Way return to prominence in summer.

Recently, a gargantuan explosion on the Sun -- perhaps approaching the power of a billion hydrogen bombs -- propelled many tens of billions of tons of particles out into space at 1.5 million miles per hour. As dramatic a...

The last couple of weeks have seen Curiosity return to the business of making steady headway toward Murray Buttes and, beyond them, Mount Sharp. Eight of the last 14 sols have seen drives ranging in length from 30 to 104...