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NASA has picked the design for its next big rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). This heavy-lift booster will carry humans farther than they've ever been, to an asteroid, Mars and beyond.
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is running...
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The mission is in its early stages, but some de...
See reactions to NASA's 2014 budget from space agency, industry and science luminaries.
The ambitious plan would have the goal of moving a small asteroid to a new orbit near the Earth by the year 2025.
The energy source that fuels the sun and other stars could propel rockets that take humans to other planets.
A look at NASA's Asteroid Initiative, which aims to park a space rock near the moon.
NASA's 2014 budget request includes $105 million to kick-start the agency's asteroid capture mission.
NASA's Charles Bolden released a statement about the budget today.
NASA's 2014 budget request would fund the agency below 2012 levels, at about $17.7 billion.
NASA is expected to receive $100 million for an ambitious asteroid-retrieval mission.
The mission is challenging but achievable, experts say.
The money should jump-start an ambitious program to send astronauts to a space rock in 2021.
The Skylab II outpost would be a modified hydrogen tank from NASA's Space Launch System rocket.
NASA new Space Launch System is a huge rocket for manned deep space flights.
A close conjunction of the moon and Jupiter is sure to dazzle stargazers this week.
A new NASA challenge tasks students with protecting astronauts and hardware from deep-space radiation.
The first Orion capsule could launch in 2014.
