As many of us were waiting for the ball to drop on New Years' Eve, NASA scientists were ringing in 2012 with a new lunar probe heading into orbit. After a 3½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two [...]

NASA has approved the first commercial space flight to the International Space Station.

SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo capsule on February 7, 2012 for the first linkup of a private-sector craft with the ISS.

NASA has found a new planet outside our solar system that's eerily similar to Earth in key aspects.

Applications for NASA's next class of astronauts are due January 27, 2012...

NASA is preparing to send a new rover to the Red Planet.

NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory probes, currently headed to the Moon, need new names, and the Agency has decided school children should name them...

You may want to keep an eye on the sky this Friday. NASA says there is a chance a defunct satellite could enter the planet's atmosphere and potentially hit someone.

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