As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

When Philip K. Dick imagined artificial beings in his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the question was whether machines could think and feel like humans. Today, NASA is posing a related, ...

NASA recently discovered an exciting new planet called a "Super-Earth," and it’s not too far from us in space terms! This planet is bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and scientists think it ...

For the second time in a row, SpaceX was forced to call off an attempt to launch its giant Super Heavy-Starship rocket on the program's 10th test flight, a milestone mission to demonstrate fixes and ...

NASA has tested a kind of super-fridge that may hold the key to any future crewed mission to Mars. Without the new cryogenic cooler, a ship to Mars would reach the Red Planet with empty fuel tanks, ...

If you lived in Goleta in the late 1960s and early ’70s, you might remember seeing these almost comical looking aircraft flying around, but do you know they served a very serious purpose and helped ...

In the vacuum of space, where temperatures can plunge to -455°F, it might seem like keeping things cold would be easy. But the reality is more complex for preserving ultra-cold fluid propellants—or ...

HOUSTON, May 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it has received NASA Super Nova Awards for 2024 Safety Excellence from the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Contractor Safety Forum ...