NASA

To land the Curiosity rover safely on the Red Planet, engineers will risk an unprecedented maneuver so crazy, it just might work.

4 | June 26, 2012 3:00am | By John Rennie

NASA pursues more powerful ways to deliver data across global networks of scientists and engineers -- and even add a Watson-like supercomputer to the International Space Station.

August 23, 2012 3:00am | By Joe McKendrick

NASA's being reorganized again, and former NASA engineer and Georgia Institute of Technology professor Bobby Braun says he has his dream job.

6 | August 12, 2010 12:03am | By Deborah Gage

The United States' ever-fluctuating plans for NASA is threatening the science and engineering brainpower and workforce development needed to remain a space player.

5 | March 30, 2011 10:15am | By Larry Dignan

Thanks to ambitions of humans going to Mars one day, technology that turns wastewater into drinking water is improving.

February 14, 2013 7:27am | By Tyler Falk

A NASA astronaut at the International Space Station on Friday became the first person to "check in" from space, using mobile geolocation service Foursquare.

3 | October 22, 2010 8:24am | By Andrew Nusca

In light of President Obama's recent elimination of NASA's planned moon missions, the agency's manned space program needs a goal, destination and timetable, experts say.

March 16, 2010 7:38am | By Andrew Nusca

A grant to bring an asteroid into orbit will be one of NASA's future goals.

14 | April 9, 2013 5:53am | By Charlie Osborne

Alarming reports from America's space agency reveal an organization lacking in clear direction, and hampered by doubt.

18 | January 25, 2011 6:00pm | By John Herrman

NASA's final Space Shuttle mission countdown is underway and the handwringing over a manned flight hiatus is picking up. The big question: Does the last Shuttle mission signal weakness or a...

15 | July 7, 2011 7:17am | By Larry Dignan

NASA invested in a company that's developing a 3D printer for pizza.

May 21, 2013 1:03pm | By Tyler Falk

Staggering satellite photos from NASA reveal that nearly all of the top layer vanished from July 8 through 12. Blame fossil fuels? One NASA boss advocates nuclear power to stop global warming.

60 | July 25, 2012 3:58am | By Mark Halper

SkyTran is about as close to flying cars as we'll get, and it could be coming to Tel Aviv.

3 | March 14, 2013 4:00am | By Tyler Falk

The labs are so underfunded that NASA is in danger of not being able to carry out research.

2 | May 12, 2010 10:38am | By Deborah Gage

Curiosity has been preparing for its two-year-long mission, and most everything, such as its first drive and first rock zappings, are going well.

1 | August 29, 2012 3:00am | By Laura Shin

In a discovery for the history books, the Mars Curiosity rover found evidence that water once flowed on Mars -- and it flowed fast and for possibly as long as millions of years.

1 | September 27, 2012 5:23pm | By Laura Shin

Commercial space race about to heat up: a private cargo spacecraft is ready to serve as a resupply line to the International Space Station.

May 17, 2012 10:27pm | By Joe McKendrick

NASA's latest invention promises to augment astronaut's bodies on deep space missions and could help some disabled people regain the ability to walk.

3 | October 14, 2012 2:00pm | By David Worthington

NASA has admitted to 13 security breaches in 2011.

March 5, 2012 3:58am | By Charlie Osborne

NASA is deploying a network of smart cameras across the United States to better understand where meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere come from.

8 | March 15, 2011 8:15am | By Andrew Nusca