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Opportunity was the little rover that could

Feb 15, 2019

La misión de Opportunity que buscaba establecer un récord en Marte parece haber llegado a su fin

Feb 13, 2019

Timeline: Opportunity’s record-setting mission on Mars

Feb 13, 2019

NASA declares end to Opportunity’s unequaled Mars mission: ‘We did love this rover’

Feb 13, 2019

Opportunity’s record-setting mission on Mars appears to have reached its end

Feb 12, 2019

How early NASA inspired the women of Kate Mascarenhas’ ‘Psychology of Time Travel’

Feb 9, 2019

Hawthorne headquarters of SpaceX to be hit hard by layoffs

Jan 13, 2019

SpaceX will soon launch and land its giant Mars spaceship. But its other 2019 goals are more down-to-earth

Jan 9, 2019

NASA's New Horizons mission reveals Ultima Thule in 3-D

Jan 3, 2019

China just landed on the far side of the moon. Could it become the first nation to have its own moon base?

Jan 3, 2019

Meet Ultima Thule: Dark as potting soil and shaped like a snowman, first images reveal

Jan 2, 2019

At 83, hidden figure of space program finally gets his due

Jan 1, 2019

NASA's New Horizons just flew past the most distant world visited by humankind and it went perfectly

Jan 1, 2019

Nine science stories to watch in 2019

Dec 28, 2018

'Hidden Figures' NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson to release autobiography next year

Dec 20, 2018

Astronauts prepare for flight in SpaceX capsule

Dec 19, 2018

Air Force says it doesn't have concerns about SpaceX's processes as NASA launches a safety review

Dec 14, 2018

Farewell, Voyager 2: NASA's pioneering spacecraft joins its twin in interstellar space

Dec 10, 2018

Drone maker AeroVironment moves its headquarters to Simi Valley from Monrovia

Dec 3, 2018

Soyuz spacecraft blasts off to International Space Station with 3 astronauts, two months after failure of Russian rocket

Dec 3, 2018

NASA selects nine companies that could send science experiments to the surface of the moon

Nov 29, 2018

InSight's 300-million-mile journey to Mars has ended with a safe landing, NASA says

Nov 26, 2018

A big day for small spacecraft: NASA’s MarCO twins perform flawlessly at Mars

Nov 26, 2018

NASA’s InSight lander is about to touch down on Mars, and you can follow live right here

Nov 26, 2018

Why is Mars so different from Earth? NASA's InSight mission will dig deep to find answers

Nov 21, 2018

NASA orders safety review of SpaceX and Boeing, reportedly due to Elon Musk marijuana video

Nov 20, 2018

The challenge of writing ‘First Man’ took four years and a crash course in aeronautical engineering

Nov 20, 2018

NASA’s next Mars rover will look for signs of life on an ancient crater lake

Nov 19, 2018

After the flash of 'La La Land,' costume designer Mary Zophres tones it down for 'First Man'

Nov 13, 2018

Out of fuel, NASA's Dawn spacecraft ends its mission to study the asteroid belt

Nov 1, 2018

U.S.-Russia space partnership has had its ups and downs, but failed launch might end up helping

Nov 1, 2018

After discovering more than 2,600 planets, NASA's Kepler space telescope is headed for retirement

Oct 30, 2018

American and Russian headed to International Space Station are safe after emergency landing

Oct 11, 2018

Review: 'First Man,' starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, thrills, moves and perplexes

Oct 9, 2018

First flights of Boeing and SpaceX astronaut capsules are delayed to 2019

Oct 4, 2018

Review: Slick 'Above and Beyond' showcases NASA's triumphs and Earthbound concerns

Oct 4, 2018

L.A. movie openings, Oct. 5

Sep 30, 2018

United Launch Alliance picks Blue Origin's engine for its new rocket

Sep 27, 2018

Meet the man who's paying SpaceX to fly him around the moon and back: billionaire Yusaku Maezawa

Sep 18, 2018

SpaceX isn't the only one interested in heading to the moon. Here's who else is planning missions

Sep 17, 2018

In last flight of a Delta 2, NASA launches satellite to measure changes in ice sheets and glaciers

Sep 15, 2018

How Saturday's satellite launch will improve understanding of rising sea levels

Sep 13, 2018

'If Beale Street Could Talk' wraps Toronto in a loving embrace, while 'High Life' and 'First Man' probe new frontiers

Sep 10, 2018

Virtually every film coming out this fall

Aug 30, 2018

China rankled by the Taiwanese president's visit to NASA

Aug 20, 2018

NASA is almost ready to let SpaceX fuel rockets while astronauts are strapped in

Aug 20, 2018

Astronaut capsule development 'will not be a losing proposition' for SpaceX

Aug 14, 2018

NASA spacecraft rockets toward the sun for our closest look yet

Aug 12, 2018

NASA's Parker Solar Probe aims to bring the sun's mysteries to light

Aug 10, 2018

A new wave of satellites in orbit: Cheap and tiny, with short life spans

Aug 7, 2018

NASA introduces astronaut crews chosen for the next human missions to launch from U.S. soil

Aug 3, 2018

First flights for Boeing and SpaceX crew capsules are delayed again

Aug 2, 2018

AeroVironment draws on high-altitude drone development to help make a helicopter for Mars

Jul 31, 2018

Northrop CEO tells Congress cost overruns for new space telescope should not be paid by company

Jul 26, 2018

Scientists detect a body of liquid water beneath a Martian ice cap

Jul 25, 2018

Boeing says its astronaut capsule system suffered 'anomaly' during engine test

Jul 23, 2018

JPL experiences brush with stardom, earning Emmy nod for Cassini coverage

Jul 19, 2018

The military is building a space plane. Now it looks to have an engine up to the task

Jul 16, 2018

Caltech awarded 5-year, $15B NASA contract to continue management of Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jun 29, 2018

Take a trip to Mars with a visit to NASA's InSight Roadshow

Jun 29, 2018

SpaceX launches a robot and strong coffee for the space station crew

Jun 29, 2018

If NASA can overcome human error and other problems, its James Webb Space Telescope may finally launch in 2021

Jun 27, 2018

NASA engineers hope the Opportunity rover will sleep through a continent-sized dust storm on Mars

Jun 13, 2018

Antarctica’s ice is shrinking at an unprecedented rate that could imperil coastal regions worldwide

Jun 13, 2018

Hallazgos de moléculas orgánicas en Marte ofrecen pistas alentadoras en la búsqueda de vida en ese planeta

Jun 7, 2018

Curiosity rover's findings on Mars' organic molecules offer tantalizing clues in the search for life on the planet

Jun 7, 2018

Dunes of methane ice? Tiny Pluto's surface reveals big surprises

May 31, 2018

Alan Bean, fourth astronaut to walk on the moon, dies at 86

May 26, 2018

NASA looks to send nuclear reactors to the moon and Mars

May 25, 2018

Internal memo suggested that White House 'ignore' federal scientists' climate research

May 23, 2018

Why are we relying on profit-driven Uber and Elon Musk for our transit future?

May 18, 2018

SpaceX's controversial rocket fueling procedure appears 'viable,' says NASA safety advisory panel

May 17, 2018

Strange readings from a dead spacecraft reveal new evidence of water on Europa

May 15, 2018

How hard is it to fly a helicopter on Mars? NASA will soon find out

May 11, 2018

NASA's InSight spacecraft is on its way to Mars

May 5, 2018

Essential California: The pitfalls of DNA testing

May 4, 2018

NASA's InSight mission will look deep into the heart of Mars for clues about its past

May 3, 2018

We need to know if there is life on Mars before we send humans there

Apr 30, 2018

Liftoff! TESS, NASA's new planet-hunting space telescope, is now in space

Apr 18, 2018

NASA's new spacecraft will remain on the launchpad until Wednesday as SpaceX conducts rocket tests

Apr 16, 2018

NASA is about to step up its planet-hunting game with the launch of TESS

Apr 13, 2018

Con el lanzamiento de TESS, la NASA redobla su cacería de planetas

Apr 13, 2018

Mexico's disaster bonds were meant to provide quick cash after hurricanes and earthquakes. But it often hasn’t worked out that way

Apr 8, 2018

Here are the best places in Lompoc to see the California launch of NASA's InSight mission to Mars

Apr 6, 2018

Hoping to get into the June ‘Explore JPL’ event? First-come, first-served tickets available online Saturday

Apr 4, 2018

InSight: NASA's next mission to Mars will go deep beneath the red planet's surface

Mar 30, 2018

Launch of James Webb Space Telescope, massive successor to Hubble, delayed to 2020

Mar 28, 2018

With a spacecraft in trouble and the White House watching, SpaceX had to deliver

Mar 18, 2018

Deep gas bands, shapely cyclones — NASA's Juno reveals more of Jupiter's secrets

Mar 7, 2018

A former NASA astronaut says it wouldn't be so bad to transfer the space station to private management

Mar 2, 2018

Coastal road trip in Western Australia is a long-held dream finally fully realized

Feb 25, 2018

MarsFest in Death Valley brings the Red Planet down to Earth

Feb 23, 2018

NASA is bringing back Cold War-era atomic rockets to get to Mars

Feb 15, 2018

TRAPPIST-1 planets are rocky and have complex atmospheres, new studies show

Feb 6, 2018

Blast from the past: How Explorer 1, America's first satellite, launched the space race and NASA

Jan 31, 2018

Watch live: 'super blue blood moon' eclipse from points in the West

Jan 30, 2018

From the Archives: Rocket test rumbles Santa Susana Field Laboratory

Jan 23, 2018

2017 was one of the three hottest years on record, NASA and NOAA scientists say

Jan 18, 2018

SpaceX and Boeing aim to take crews to the space station soon, but Congress has a warning

Jan 17, 2018

The Falcon Heavy rocket will be one of SpaceX's biggest tests yet

Jan 12, 2018

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