Fallen leaves crunched beneath shoes of the 48 students as they kept their eyes peeled, looking for wildlife. ...more

January 28, 2009

36 cents Amount the inspector general assigned to NASA saved taxpayers for every dollar the agency spent ...more

January 11, 2009

NASA has begun preparations for a Feb. 12 launch of U.S. space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, spending this weekend joining the external fuel tank and solid-rocket boosters to the shuttle. ...more

January 11, 2009

Congressional auditors say that NASA's in-house financial watchdog is doing little to unearth waste and abuse at the space agency. ...more

January 11, 2009

NASA has a flight gap coming. Can the private sector fill it? The space agency is planning to retire the shuttle fleet in 2010, but the next generation of spacecraft is not likely to be ready to fly astronauts to the International Space Station and beyond until 2015. During the pause in American flights, the United States will rely on Russia to get astronauts to the station. ...more

January 2, 2009

When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn't know it. ...more

December 31, 2008

A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. ...more

December 30, 2008

It's the 40th anniversary of the start of a mission that sent humans around the moon for the first time and set the stage for the first landing on the moon. ...more

December 21, 2008

Space shuttle Endeavour has to wait another day to make its cross-country return trip to Florida. ...more

December 8, 2008

NASA has set a May date for its space shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope for a final time. ...more

December 4, 2008