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NASA Actually Working on Faster-than-Light Warp Drive
A physicist at NASA says he's working on a warp drive that could enable faster-than-light travel -- isn't that impossible?
Watch: NASA Captures A ‘Mind-Bogglingly Gorgeous’ Solar Flare
A new video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is a breathtaking reminder of the wonders of space. The video captures a “massive filament” eruption on the...
Music On Mars: New will.i.am Song to Get Martian Premiere This Afternoon
Tune in this afternoon at 4:00 Eastern to hear a song straight from the red planet
Tatooine Now: NASA Finds Planet Orbiting Binary Star System
Dark matter and Big Bangs may not be easy to visualize, but planets orbiting twin stars is something many of us have envisioned from the moment the London...
Meanwhile, Back on Earth: NASA Lander Prototype Crashes, Burns
But, we still have pictures from Mars
Curiosity Takes Center Stage as Crowds Cheer in Times Square
A large crowd gathered in Times Square to cheer the landing of Curiosity on Mars, a $2.5 billion endeavor that saw NASA's most advanced rover yet enter the...
How to Experience the Curiosity Rover’s Mars Landing Online
Early Monday morning, the Curiosity rover will attempt to land on Mars. Luckily, NASA is making it pretty easy to follow along online.
What’s Next for NASA? 10 Wild Newly Funded Projects
Take a look at 10 of the most fantastic projects that NASA hopes will be inspiring people long after Curiosity has finished exploring Mars.
Mars Landing: The 7 Most Adorkable Moments From The NASA Control Room
For us, watching NASA's geek heroes celebrate was almost more fun than the landing itself.
What’s Next for NASA? 10 Wild, Newly Funded Projects
Take a look at 10 of the most fantastic projects that NASA hopes will be inspiring people long after Curiosity has finished exploring Mars.
Unusual Summer Storm Blasts the Arctic
A rare summer storm blasted the Arctic this week, beginning off the coast of Alaska, and moving over much of the Arctic Sea for several days before dissipating...
Explore NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with Google Street View
With NASA's rover hopefully landing safe and sound on the surface of Mars late Sunday night, people are once again talking about space travel. Before getting...
Wednesday Words: Obamaloney, NASA Lingo and More
Obamaloney (n.): a pejorative term characterizing President Obama’s statements as absent of rationality or meaning. To be fair, Obama started it this time. The...
NASA’s Curiosity Rover: The Coolest Mars Landing Ever Attempted
Touching down on another planet has never been easy, but the Curiosity rover takes it another step.
Indigenous Tribe Rises up in Colombia
In southern Colombia, a tribe of indigenous people, the Nasa Indians, have risen up after being caught in the crossfire of a government offensive against leftist...
Mission to Mars: 8 Amazing Tech Tools Aboard NASA’s Curiosity Rover
Assuming Curiosity -- aka the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL -- survives the 354-million mile journey, here's a look at some of the technology it'll deploy...
NASA Gets Two New Hubble Telescopes -- Absolutely Free
It hardly bears mentioning that the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most extraordinarily successful scientific instruments of all time. Since 1993,...
Falcon's Liftoff: How a Private Firm Could Change Space Exploration
Let's be honest: for all of NASA's Apollo-driven glory, the 30 years of bloated-budget, earth-tethered Shuttle missions has left everyone with the niggling...
NASA Renovates its Biggest, Baddest House
The best time to do a little renovating is when everyone is out of the house -- something homeowners know and something NASA appears to appreciate too. The...
