Presently, Martian surface is a barren, arid desert but the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has provided strong evidence that an ocean may have covered parts of the red planet...

Students, from left, Gaby Dempsey, 12, Kate Murray, 13, and Mackenzie Grewell, 13, read in the Red Room of the White House after setting up their science fair exhibit, Feb. 6, 2012. The three girls,...

Astronaut Janice Voss, who died Feb. 6, 2012, at age 55, is pictured on the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-99 mission in...

Astronaut Janice Voss, who died Feb. 6, 2012, at age 55, is pictured on the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-99 mission in...

A NASA graphic shows hardware from the aerospace companies that have Space Act Agreements with the agency for developing crew transport systems. Top row, from left: Blue Origin's orbital space...

A bright fireball streaked across the nighttime sky over eastern Texas and Oklahoma last week, and was caught on video by a police car camera. The spectacular light show, which occurred Feb. 1,...

Samsung 's highly anticipated, though currently unconfirmed, Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone will be unveiled at a French media event in the near future. Though gave no firm date in its report,...

Introducing Felix Baumgartner and the extreme sport of space jumps, sponsored by Red Bull. After a few legal speed bumps along the way, plans are back on track for the Austrian daredevil to plunge...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft detected sediments on Mars' northern plains that are reminiscent of an ocean floor, in a region that has also previously been identified...

NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was...

(Reuters) – Former Astronaut Janice E. Voss, one of the few women launched into space, has died of breast cancer in Arizona, her alma mater said on Tuesday. Voss, 55, died on Monday in...

WASHINGTON - NASA should contribute $20 million worth of hardware to Europe’s planned Euclid dark-matter observatory, but only "in the context of a strong U.S. commitment" to the...

NEPHI, Utah – Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers...

NASA says it received more than 6,300 applications for a position in the space agency's next class of astronauts, twice as many as it typically receives. It was the second highest number of...

The blight of space exploration is also the lifeblood of space exploration: government funding. And today, it seems that concerns for the future financial landscape may have...

Chinese scientists assembled a global Moon map using images captured by the Chang'e-2 spacecraft with an an unprecedented resolution of 7-meters. Credit: China Space...

A large boulder stopped on its way down a sloping wall in the central peak of Schiller crater on the Moon. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. One solitary boulder on the Moon apparently...

Image: Artist concept of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser docked to the ISS. Credit: Sierra Nevada NASA is looking for more ways to get astronauts to the International Space Station. The space...

Dr. Janice Voss - Photo Courtesy of NASA Please take the time to respectfully recognize the passing of veteran astronaut, Janice Voss. She was a former science director for a NASA exoplanet-hunting...

Artist's conception of a binary star sunset as seen from the exoplanet Kepler-16b. For some planets, such views may be only temporary. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Kepler Mission Many of us...

| Feb 07, 2012 07:11 AM EDT The Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival Monday marked the end of the 15-day-long Chinese New Year celebrations which started Jan. 23. The Lantern Festival is...

One of the finest IMAX films ever made is making a return visit to the IMAX Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo. The breathtaking "Hubble," which showcases extraordinary images of Earth taken...

-; It's big, it's old and it lives under the sea -- and now an international research collaboration with The University of Western Australia's Ocean's Institute has confirmed that...

VATICAN CITY, 2 FEB 2012 (VIS) - "An exhibition which recounts the history of the universe, from the particles which make up the atoms in our bodies to distant galaxies". With these words,...

JAWPRINT: So after you've 3D printed a bunch of handy stuff for around the home what next? Well, one 83 year old got herself a new jaw from a 3D printer. At the University of Hasselt in Belgium a...

Taipei, Feb. 7 (CNA) Taiwan's exports fell in January to US$21.08 billion, a 12 percent decline from the previous month, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Tuesday. Imports also dropped 4.5...

Astronaut Don Pettit demonstrated the laws of static electricity on Space Station with the help of a water dropper and grandma's sweater maker: knitting...

This photo of the full moon on Jan. 8, 2012 shows the moon as it appeared to astronauts on the International Space Station. It is one in a series of full moon photos by the station's Expedition...

New results from the MARSIS radar on Mars Express give strong evidence for a former ocean of Mars. The radar detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor inside previously identified, ancient...

Clones of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica may be the oldest and largest organisms on Earth, spanning nearly 10 miles (15 km) wide, with ages that date back to 100,000...

An artist's concept of the four tails of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (orange clump on left) orbiting the Milky Way. The bright yellow circle to the right of the Milky Way's center is our...

Lots of dogs and babies appeared in commercial advertisements for Super Bowl XLVI, but game-day ads also increasingly are pointing to social media handles, such as Twitter and Facebook. It's...

A patch of Mediterranean seagrass could be up to 200,000 years old making it the oldest living creature on Earth, according to Australian researchers. The super-ancient patch of Neptune grass, a...

brick-sized cellphone of the 1980s . For Google Android users, finding an ultra-thin smartphone is no longer a problem, but rather, finding the best option among several ultra-thin smartphones is the...

(Oregon Coast) – This week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced it predicts debris from the Japanese earthquake-driven tsunami this spring will start washing up...

(Newport, Oregon) – If you've ever wondered what parts of the Oregon coast looked like from space, a new imaging system called HICO – for Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean...

(Manzanita, Oregon) – It's 2 a.m. in the wee hours of May 4. And when everyone else is sleeping or stumbling home from bars, Oregon Coast Beach Connection hits the overlooks above...

(Oregon Coast) – Not all the weird science of the Oregon coast happens on the ground, or for that matter, in Earth's atmosphere. When conditions are clear along the coast, the beaches and...

(Manzanita, Oregon) – It's a lovely day, like any day in January on the Oregon coast. Oh wait a minute. It's a spring-like day, in January. An extraordinarily spring-like day, where...

(Manzanita, Oregon) – It's the middle of the night on the north coast, and not a creature was stirring. Except me, and a handful of truckers doing test runs of new vehicles, as they do at...

Covering 180 miles of Oregon coast travel: Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway, Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oceanside, Pacific City, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport,...