"We all have a thirst for wonder," American astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his sci-fi novel Contact. "It's a deeply human quality." And it's partly thanks to this "thirst" that NASA had the space game ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The year 2016 was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and ...

Another year, another broken temperature record. As early data predicted, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have now reported that globally, 2016 was the warmest year ...

NASA on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-REx to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and – in a US space ...

Usually, NASA updates the world on global climate trends after the end of each calendar year, but this year, in light of extraordinary events, scientists hopped on a teleconference to update members ...

On the evening of the Fourth of July, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will attempt to enter Jupiter’s orbit and begin a multi-week research phase. We’re reporting on the mission live, so check back regularly ...

Today is one of celebration for NASA: not only is it Independence Day, but it’s also the day that the agency’s Juno spacecraft puts itself into orbit around Jupiter. After launching in August 2011, ...

Nasa's plans to send humans back to the Moon and possibly even further have received a huge boost after the US Congress decided to fund the space agency with an "extraordinary" budget for 2016. But ...

NASA announced on Wednesday that in 2016, Earth experienced the hottest surface temperatures in modern history. Separate, independent analysis at NOAA provided the same conclusion. This makes the ...

Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and NOAA. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new ...