NASA named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly on what would be t...
A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the world's first planetary defense system, designed to de...
NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency sai...
NASA scientists have unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies of its daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation over the red planet and a rocket-powered ...
Yale University scientists have succeeded in restoring basic cellular activity in pigs’ brains hours after their deaths in a finding that may one day lead to advances in treating human st...
California has been declared totally drought free for the first time in more than seven years, following unusually abundant winter rains and snowfall statewide.
The city of Los Angeles celebrated its first Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday, joining the growing ranks of local governments across the country replacing the traditional Columbus Day hol...
