That's one small step for trivia: An Apollo space quiz ...

NASA wasn't born with a rocket in its hand — it was forged in the heat of the Cold War, when the race to space became a global obsession. Since its founding, the agency has transformed from a scrappy ...

The chairman of a congressional subcommittee examining NASA’s aeronautics spending plan is asking whether deliberate national strategy rather than budget pressure should guide the federal government’s ...

Some of the glorified careers we hear about as kids include firefighters who save lives, doctors who cure illnesses, and astronauts who venture into space. If you grew up in the US, then NASA's ...

On Sunday night, while the rest of us were ooohing and aaahing over gymnastics, a bunch of propeller heads at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were flawlessly steering a billion-dollar robotic ...

Test your knowledge of science tidbits that have been in the news recently about a rocket that failed to launch, the parent that puts you at risk for Alzheimer's disease, Antarctica ice that grows ...

Love quizzes? NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is holding one from the International Space Station, which orbits 220 miles above the Earth's surface. Kelly, who began his historic, year-long residence at ...

If you have a taste for adventure to go where few have gone before, then you might want to sign up to be a NASA astronaut. On December 14, for the first time in four years, NASA began accepting ...

Which World Cup competitor is this? Photo by NASA Earth Observatory/Flickr As the World Cup kicks off in Brazil (and the International Space Station), the clever folks at NASA took the opportunity to ...

On Nov. 18, President Obama signed an Appropriations bill that solidified NASA's budget for fiscal year 2012. The space agency will get $17.8 billion -- that's $648 million less than last year's ...