It is expected to be announced that NASA will cut funding for the exploration of the planet Mars after Congress cut its 2013 budget. However, a former high ranking NASA official calls the move “irrational and unjustified.”

Roger Boisjoly was one of the engineers that vehemently opposed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger because he was firmly convinced its o-rings would not hold up under the very cold conditions on the morning of January 28, 1986. He and other engineers were correct. NASA was wrong -- dead wrong.

Stephen Colbert, the host of "The Colbert Report", says he is a big fan of space and supports the "great things" NASA is doing on the International Space Station.

NASA has been criticized lately about building a heavy-lift rocket -- the Space Launch System (SLS) -- without a clear goal in mind as to where it will go in space. NASA responds to this question.  

 American astronaut Shannon Lucid has retired from NASA after over three decades of being a NASA employee, including being an astronaut on the Russian space station Mir and the International Space Station.  

The U.S. space agency NASA announced the release of its first multi-player online game Space Race Blastoff on Monday, January 30, 2012. The app is available on Facebook.

NASA has just released an image it is calling “Blue Marble 2012”, which the space agency is describing as the “most amazing high definition image of Earth.”

A triangular object seen in video taken by the NASA STEREO probe appears to show an alien object heading toward Earth. NASA scientists analyzed the images and have other, more rational, thoughts on the origin of this strange-looking space object.

The first commercial cargo ship (Dragon) planning to fly to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) will be delayed by nearly two months so engineers can perform additional testing.

NASA announced on January 11, 2012, that its Kepler Space Telescope has detected three planets orbiting the star KOI-961. They are considered the smallest planets ever found outside of our solar system – all three are about half the radius of Earth.