An experimental, "green" NASA lander crashed during its first free-flight test today (Aug. 9), erupting in a ball of flame when it hit the ground. The unmanned Morpheus lander, which could one day ...

NASA found something shooting beams deep into the Milky Way. The heart of our galaxy has long been regarded as a quiet, inscrutable void—a cosmic backwater amid celestial fireworks. But recent ...

NASA's alien world-hunting telescope Kepler has captured for the first time, the rare shockwave from an exploding star. Known as the "shock breakout", the shockwave lasts just 20 minutes and has until ...