NASA has selected 12 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims to turn science fiction into fact through pioneering technology development.

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There’s no denying that NASA had an exciting 2014. While some of the organization’s most memorable achievements involved them bringing humankind much closer on the journey to Mars, those weren’t the ...

The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. The 10 warmest years in the ...

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On Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, NASA launched the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle into space. Orion made two looping orbits around our planet and then splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing what ...

According to new data released this week, May 2014 is officially the warmest May in recorded history. Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which maintains NASA’s ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At the moment, even getting off the ground would be progress: since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, ...

Remember how excited you were last summer? No, not because you found a booth at the state fair selling deep fried beer. I'm talking about New Horizons, sillies. Well get ready for another bout of ...

The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. Nine of the 10 warmest years since modern records began have now occurred since 2000, ...