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.”

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.

Australia had plenty of moon units gazing up at Earth’s major orbiter early this morning, as a red, dead moondemption eclipsed the threat of ash – but wasn’t able to overcome view-marring cloudy weather for some.

The U.S. space agency NASA will announce on Thursday, June 9, 2011, that the edge of our Solar System is not smooth as once thought but, instead, is a “turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles.”

If you can wake up early on the morning of May 11, 2011, you’ll get an eye-awakening sight in the form of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter all bunched together.

The WISE mission by NASA completed a full map of the entire sky over the past year. Now, NASA is releasing about half of the images sent back from the spacecraft – all for you to see.

The NASA MESSENGER spacecraft has successfully done what no other spacecraft has ever done before, insert itself into orbit around the planet Mercury.

The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER has spent over 6.5 years traveling to the planet Mercury. On March 17, 2011, it will enter an orbit about Mercury, the first time any human-made probe has successfully done so in the history of space exploration.

Solar system researchers at Arizona State University think our solar system could be up to 1.9 million older than its currently accepted age, which stands at about 4.56 billion years old. They studied a meteorite and formulated their own estimate of our age.  

Astronomers are studying a planet called Corot-9b, which is about 1,500 light years from Earth, that they say will be studied in great detail because it is very similar to our planets in the Solar System. They think it might be reveal a "gold mine" of information.