NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory braces for another round of layoffs as budget cuts loom. Approximately 550 employees of NASA ...

The U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without supporting NASA In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use ...

More layoffs are hitting JPL, the NASA research lab near Pasadena. People will begin getting their notices on Tuesday, Oct.

The government shutdown is on track to extend into a third week. Congress remains deadlocked on a funding plan, and the Senate isn’t scheduled to hold any votes until Tuesday. Follow for live updates.

It will be several years before any of these new commercial space stations circle the Earth at around 17,500 miles per hour ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges ...

We're all familiar with NASA's astronomical advances, but you may be surprised to find out that some of their inventions ...

The official August data on the number of fires in Brazil's Amazon needs to be corrected and will likely show an increase over last year, meaning that blazes surged to a decade high, a scientist ...

One of the missions, currently on its way to an asteroid, has been saved, but the fate of several others depend on the ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...