Image: A video camera aboard space shuttle Discovery captured this view of the shuttle's payload bay and robotic arm as the vehicle soared above the Earth. Photo credit: NASA TV

Space shuttle Discovery blasted off Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center on ...

Cheap, lightweight cameras could help protect mass transit, but would they survive a big costly blast? That was the question on the minds of Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) scientists and managers watching from behind three feet of reinforced concrete. Outside was an old public bus, rigged with explosives; a series of baseball-sized ...

NASA's Swift and Fermi spacecraft are monitoring a neutron star 30,000 light years from Earth that is drawing ...

Space dust annoys astronomers just as much as the household variety when it interferes with their observations of distant stars. And yet space dust also poses one of the great mysteries of astronomy. “We not only do not know what the stuff is, but we do not know where it is made or how it gets ...

Even in space, someone has to clean the bathroom. Good housekeeping is essential when you're living in the close quarters of a tightly-sealed spaceship for months at a time. To make this possible, NASA scientists have developed a tricorder-like device called "LOCAD-PTS" that can track down microscopic bacteria and fungi. It helps astronauts do their ...