NASA officials sounded an alarm Tuesday about the agency’s Deep Space Network, a collection of antennas in California, Spain, and Australia used to maintain contact with missions scattered across the ...

No NASA official would ever admit this in public, but the 2010s have been a frustrating decade for human spaceflight. After the space shuttle retired in 2011, as most everyone knows, NASA had no way ...

Variety, nutrition, and taste are some considerations when developing food for astronauts. For NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, students, chefs, small businesses, and others whipped up novel food ...

It’s not a question of “will” mankind will ever step foot on Mars. It’s a question of “when” we will. However, before that happens, scientists have to answer a whole lot of other questions first. And ...

Over 50 years ago, NASA captured the world's imagination and inspired generations with the Apollo 11 moon landing. NASA's then-young Deep Space Network (DSN) was crucial to tracking and communicating ...

NASA has achieved an impressive first by streaming an ultra-HD video to Earth by laser from 19 million miles away. “This will pave the way for higher-data-rate communications in support of the next ...

If aliens had intercepted NASA's space-laser communications earlier this month, they would've been scratching their heads over footage of a fat orange cat chasing a laser around a grey couch. NASA ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255 Black hole week kicked off on ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...

NASA's deep space Voyager probes are among the oldest rockets launched by the international space agency. However, these sats are now expected to retire as the National Aeronautics and Space ...