NASA is preparing to send humans beyond the Moon — toward a near-Earth asteroid. The mission will push astronauts into deep space for months, exposing them to radiation, isolation, and conditions ...

Ground-penetrating radar reveals a long-lost river system hidden under the surface of Mars. (NASA/JPL/UCLA/UiO/ETH Zurich) ...

NASA’s Juno Mission Probe Reveals Strange Findings Deep Within Jupiter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planetary alignments may guide the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, boosting chances of detecting alien technosignatures ...

Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or ...

One small step for man. One giant pounce for felinekind. A cat named Taters just made history. NASA recently streamed a high-definition video of Taters from outer space back to Earth. But here is the ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

When the general public thinks about NASA, they likely think about space shuttles, rockets, satellites, and the International Space Station in Earth's lower orbit. Despite NASA's future without the ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...