NASA News

Research into 3D-printed food will be funded by NASA, which gave mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor a $125,000 grant, so he can build the printer.

William Shatner, the original Captain Kirk, describes how NASA spinoff technology has turned science fiction into science fact via specially recorded video.

A massive asteroid 1998 QE2 will fly past Earth May 31, 2013 at 1:59 p.m.Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern / 20:59 UTC). Astronomers say it will not approach closer than 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km), about 15 times the distance between Earth and Moon.

NASA is reporting that a meteor smashed into the Moon on March 17, 2013 at a speed of 56,000 mph, sparking the biggest and brightest explosion ever observed and creating a crater 65 feet wide (20 meters).

Crew members aboard the International Space Station are awaiting word on how to deal with leaking ammonia from an outside cooling system. The six-man crew is not in danger, NASA said.

In only 30 years, great glaciers have retreated and a lake that was once the world’s fourth largest has all but dried up. For the first time ever, the human impact on the face of earth as seen from space is on full view, and it is not a pretty picture.

Mars One officials announced on May 7 that since the application process opened on April 22, about 78,000 people have applied with the nonprofit organization to become the first human settlers on the Red Planet.

Two spiral galaxies, tethered by the gravitational pull of supermassive black holes at their centers, have collided in space and kicked up a massive cloud of hot dense gas.

NASA has released some of the most breathtaking images yet from the Cassini-Huygens Saturn orbiter, showing a gigantic hurricane gyrating around Saturn’s north pole.

NASA has signed a new contract to keep American astronauts in space. They will now be paying $424 million more to Russia.