NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

First Buddy” Elon Musk says he was given a new mission directly from Donald Trump to bring two NASA astronauts who have been ...

While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south ...

Kranz was not claiming that failure was never an option; he was insisting that his team must not fail when it mattered most.

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum will honor the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia with two days of special events ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Credit: NASA / SpaceX One of the many advantages of being in space is having a front-row seat to the most anticipated cosmic events. Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's ...

Bechtel's $1.3 billion launch pad project for NASA is one step closer to completion after a series of delays. The Reston, Virginia-based contractor announced that it successfully lifted and placed ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

NASA wants to go to Mars again -- and this time, bring back rocks. With a plan that America's premier space agency describes as its "most ambitious, multi-mission campaign," it intends to send a ...