The sun unleashed three massive solar flares in a 24-hour period earlier this week, including one travelling at over 2,200 kilometres per second which was expected to catch up with the earlier two and form a super cloud of dangerous solar energy hurtling through space. But don't worry, NASA says the sun could never release a flare powerful enough to destroy the Earth.
NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.
The U.S. space agency is planning for a robotic spaceship to capture a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator disclosed Friday.
Newly released images of Saturn's moon show the satellite bears the scars of countless collisions with space rocks that have left its surface battered and beaten.
NASA is set to launch a new Earth-observing satellite designed to carry on the tradition of documenting changes to the planet's glaciers, forests and coastlines.
Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond.
