21 beautiful, vintage photographs of NASA's glory days

The US space agency NASA joined Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek co-stars to bid adieu to the veteran actor who died on Friday at the age of 83. 'I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humour, his talent, and his capacity to love,' William ...

U.S. space agency NASA on Friday gave a go-ahead for Sunday's third spacewalk outside the International Space Station as station managers expressed "a high degree of confidence" about the safety of American spacesuits. At the conclusion of ...

First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map from New Mission Video: YouTube, NASA Goddard for Climate Central 2015-02-27 16:45:54 UTC Follow @@ClimateCentral Few things on our planet connect us like precipitation. The storm that drops snow in the ...

[embedded content] GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A year ago Friday, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) put the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory into orbit. Now, for the first time, data collected ...

Nasa is preparing to launch quartet of Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft on 12 March aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US. Four observatories are ...

NASA scientists are bewildered by two unusual bright lights shining from a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter. The picture was taken from NASA's Dawn spacecraft last week, which shows two distinct lights on the planet Ceres' surface. "This is ...

02:26 PM EST Over the past 12 months NASA has added five missions to its orbiting Earth-observing fleet. (Photo : NASA) In what has been the busiest-ever year of NASA Earth science launches, four new Earth-observing missions have been ...

NASA Nimoy is best known for his acting role as the exasperatingly logical alien, Spock, who served as the first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek series that first aired in 1966 — just three years before Americans ...

Two US astronauts will go ahead with a spacewalk this weekend despite a flaw in one of the spacesuits that allowed water to seep into the helmet, the US space agency NASA said Friday. Mission managers made the decision after discussing what NASA called "the ...