CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.Full story
NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy. Full story
A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station is having elements of its spacecraft undergo landing-related tests at NASA facilities in Virginia and California. Full story
Ariel Castro did father the child of one of his kidnapping victims, NASA reports trouble at the International Space Station and Randy Jackson is leaving American Idol.
Video released by NASA shows three years of images of the sun. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
A mid-level solar flare that NASA is calling the sun's "spring fling" was strong enough to temporarily silence radios on Earth. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
According to NASA, powder from a rock found on Mars indicates the Red Planet may have been able to support microbes billions of years ago. NBC’s Katie Wall reports.
The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd takes a “deep dive” look into the meteor that hit Russia and why NASA did not have earlier notice of it’s coming. Rep. Rush Holt explains NASA’s tracking system and discusses budget cuts to NASA and the department’s future.
This January 27, 2013 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSS handout photo shows a general view, captured by Mastcam:Left onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the Red Planet, even more complicated than last
This Aug. 26, 2003 image made available by NASA shows Mars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on the planet's closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years. NASA’s robotic rover Curiosity landed safely on Mars late Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 to begin two years of exploration. The mission cost $2.5 bil
This mosaic of Mars is a compilation of images captured by the Viking Orbiter 1. The center of the scene shows the entire 2,500-mile Valles Marineris canyon system, which is five times as long as the Grand Canyon. The image is part of "MARS 2K4," an exhibit on display at the National Geographic Muse
Hundreds of meteoroid impacts on the moon, detected by NASA's lunar monitoring program, are pictured in this undated NASA handout photo. The brightest, detected on March 17, 2013, in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching t
