NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...
A high-altitude scientific balloon operated by NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, carrying the EXCITE instrument ...
NASA is sending things up into the air on a fairly regular basis; what isn't so regular is when something it sends up comes ...
A massive NASA research object landed unexpectedly on a Texas farm. Ann Walter of Edmonson, Texas, witnessed the large ...
A piece of scientific equipment about the size of an SUV, attached to a massive parachute, fell from the sky in rural West Texas.
A years-long student-led NASA project that develops technology to help guide rockets will near its final destination this month on board the Balloon Optimization Opportunity Platform!, or BOOP!
NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space that would ...
A West Texas woman found one of NASA’s missing unmanned scientific research balloons when it crashed in her neighbor's field.
An average of 200 to 400 tracked objects, also referred to as ‘space junk,’ enter Earth’s atmosphere annually.