The U.S. space agency, NASA, says its Mars probe has detected snow falling high in the planet's atmosphere. NASA says the Phoenix Lander found the snow falling from clouds about four kilometers above the spacecraft's landing site.

Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launched their Falcon 1 rocket into orbit, making it the first commecial launch vehicle to reach orbit.

Students of the Apeejay School have brought laurels to the city by jointly winning a prestigious contest at the NASA's Johnson Space Center with two US schools.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has had plenty to reason to celebrate over the last fifty years. But for those of us who grew up on a steady diet of moon rockets and planetary voyagers, NASA's future is cause for concern. Barack Obama spoke eloquently on that uncertain future to a packed audience in Titusville, Florida this weekend. Standing not far from Kennedy Space Center, the democratic nominee said in part.

NASA has denied media and internet speculation that the Phoenix Lander has found life on the 'Red Planet', Mars and has also denied that the White House in the United States has been briefed on such matters that would lead up to an announcement by NASA later this week. This comes just after NASA stated on July 31, that Phoenix confirmed the presence of water-ice on Mars.

Phoenix confirms that there is water on Mars, says NASA and extends the mission.

On July 29, 1958, passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act gave birth to NASA and the space agency was established. NASA's motto is: "For the benefit of all."

These are two separate, side-by-side animations made from the same nine images the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took looking into the sky after 5:17 p.m. local time on Sol 8 (June 2, 2008), the eighth Martian day of the mission.

After successfully delivering and installing Japan's Kibo module on the International Space Station, Discovery's astronauts are preparing to land in Florida on Saturday.

At 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful Florida sky headed for space. NASA GLAST launch took off successfully.

Nearly two weeks after its historic landing, the US Mars probe Phoenix has scooped up its first sample of Martian soil and begun analysing it for water and organic compounds, a NASA official said.

Scientists working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust.