NASA won't launch its next mission to Mars for another year, but preparations for the journey are already well underway with the spacecraft currently undergoing extensive testing.

As the supposed Mayan apocalypse date of Dec. 21 quickly approaches, everyone from NASA, scientists, and cultural scholars are speaking out to debunk doomsday prophecies.

NASA will live stream the organization's fond farewell to two of its most valued former employees as it crashes them into the moon Monday.

If you thought you'd already missed your chance to watch the tremendous asteroid, 4179 Toutatis, buzz by earth last week, you're in luck. A new video has surfaced capturing the rare cosmic event in all its glory.

Never let it be said NASA doesn't know how to throw one hell of a retirement party.

NASA -- forever the nerd at the birthday party revealing secrets to magic tricks in painful detail -- continues to ruin our fun.

You might want to start reducing your carbon foot print as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) found that combined rate of melting for the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has increased during the last 20 years.

La NASA, a través de su página oficial nasa.gov, ha negado absolutamente,que el 21 de Diciembre del 2012, sea el fin del mundo.

The world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. Or will it? Thanks to the U.S. government, you no longer have to fall asleep on Dec. 20 wondering if there will be a tomorrow to wake up to. The government is trying to dispel doomsday rumors in the best way it knows how: a reassuring blog post on its official blog.

Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and frozen organic materials inside permanently shadowed craters in its north pole, NASA scientists said on Thursday.

If you've been following the news, then you might have heard that the end of time is expected to come in about three weeks - on Dec. 21.

Leonid Meteors are expected to shower the earth early Tuesday morning.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is going to get some company.

U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated NASA scientists on Monday for landing a rover on Mars, promising to keep up key space investments and jokingly asking if they could keep him posted on any contact with Martians.

NASA is banking on its $2.5 billion Mars rover to not crash as it prepares to land on the red planet on Sunday.