Despite being labelled by NASA as 'potentially hazardous', asteroid 2016 NF23 does not pose a threat.
NASA has posted up an amusing example of pareidolia found in a photograph taken using its HiRISE camera.
NASA is investigating the possibility of sending a probe to Mars that could directly seek out alien life forms.
In a recent Twitter exchange, Leland Melvin described seeing 'something organic/alien-like' in the payload bay.
The nine astronauts will be embarking on the first manned launches from American soil since 2011.
Today marks exactly six decades since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is now on the hunt for habitable extrasolar worlds.
Peculiar surface features that resemble large spiders can be seen in the latest image from NASA's Mars orbiter.
NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will be venturing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
Prof. Kevin Knuth maintains that the truth is out there and that governments are covering up evidence of ET.
A new 18-page document outlines how NASA and FEMA will approach the threat of an apocalyptic asteroid strike.
A woman in Tennessee is claiming ownership of a vial of Moon dust given to her family by Neil Armstrong himself.
NASA has announced this week that complex organic matter has been found in an ancient lake bed on Mars.
It appears as though the space agency's Curiosity rover has discovered something interesting on Mars.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Veteran NASA photographer Bill Ingalls lost one of his cameras in a freak accident earlier this month.
Researchers in Germany may have found an explanation for the thrust produced by the controversial drive.
NASA's new spacecraft has returned a breathtaking two-second exposure which features over 200,000 stars.
The space agency is moving forward with its plan to send a helicopter drone to Mars in two years' time.
The US space agency has emphasized that its Moon ambitions will not distract from its efforts to reach Mars.