Astronauts chow down on first salad grown in space
NASA's Scott Kelly and his colleagues tasted lettuce grown and harvested on the International Space Station
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Take a video tour of the curious dwarf planet Ceres
New NASA video highlights a complex surface of craters, mountains, and the confounding source of those famous bright spots
NASA names new space station manager
Mike Suffredini, NASA's space station program manager for the past 10 years, is stepping down to take a post in private industry
Mars Curiosity rover celebrates its third birthday
A look back at what we've learned about the red planet
NASA gif shows moon circling Earth from 1M miles away
This is what it looks like when the moon passes over the Earth -- from the perspective of the sun
Meet the Ares 3 crew from upcoming film "The Martin"
A new video clip introduces the Ares 3 crew from upcoming 20th Century Fox film "The Martian"
Buzz Aldrin's $33.31 moon mission expense report
The famed spacewalker tweeted a copy of his travel voucher to the moon
Emotional responses to Challenger, Columbia exhibit
NASA's first display of debris from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles has powerful impact
Why NASA crash testing small planes could someday save lives
Researchers are working on building a better, smarter, emergency locator transmitter that can sense when a crash is imminent
Mystery "graffiti" on Saturn moon has experts stumped
A new image of the moon Tethys shows odd red lines across its surface, but no one seems to know what caused them
NASA crashes planes to save lives
Space agency hopes series of dramatic tests in Virginia will improve on-board locator beacons so when the worst happens, help arrives fast
What it would be like to live on Earth's "cousin"
"If we were there, we'd get stronger; it would be like a workout every day," one NASA official says about life on Kepler-452b
Glacier-like nitrogen ice flows found on Pluto
Latest pictures from the New Horizons probe reveal glacier-like nitrogen ice flows and something that "stunned" investigators
Awe-inspiring NASA video takes you flying over Pluto
If you took a spaceship to Pluto and looked out the window, this is what you'd see
"Super Earth" cousin closest yet to a world like ours
NASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted a potentially habitable "older, bigger cousin to Earth" orbiting a sun-like star
Russian rocket takes off with crew bound for ISS
A Russian Soyuz rocket shot into space Wednesday, carrying an international three-man crew to the space station
Second mountain range discovered in Pluto's heart
The icy peaks stand as tall as the Appalachian Mountains
Two of Pluto's moons get their chance to shine
The New Horizons probe has taken some of the best images yet of Nix and Hydra, two of Pluto's moons
Soyuz with crew of three set for launch to station
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft prepares to take three fresh crew members to the space station after a series of failures
"Epic" Earth pic from a million miles away
The image from a new satellite has even the president tweeting with excitement; NASA says there's more where that came from
Rare view of black hole in "bull's-eye" eruption
Rings of X-ray light flare and fade around an active black hole in stunning new observations by NASA's Swift space telescope
Apollo 11: The original moonwalk
President John F. Kennedy ignited the "space race" with the Soviet Union on May 25, 1961 with his goal of putting an American on the moon; The Apollo 11 mission captured the imagination of a generation when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon July 20, 1969
Museum crowdfunding to save Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
The Smithsonian Institution's scramble for preservation comes on the anniversary of Apollo 11's historic moon landing
New Horizons zooms in on frozen "heart" of Pluto
"Just astoundingly amazing" pictures from New Horizon probe reveal what's going on in region shaped like a heart
Hillary Clinton: I wanted to be an astronaut
The presidential candidate recalled that NASA told her they weren't hiring women
Trump and Zelenskyy say they're nearly in agreement on Ukraine peace plan
President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he said he had a "good and very productive" call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Bondi Beach shooting hero says he just wanted to save innocent people
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man hailed as a hero for disarming one of the gunmen behind a deadly antisemitic attack on Australia's Bondi Beach, says he just wanted to save innocent people.
China launches 2 days of live-fire military drills around Taiwan
China launched live-fire drills around Taiwan on Monday that it said would simulate a blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports, prompting Taipei to condemn Beijing's "military intimidation."
Bank of America CEO warns market "will punish people" without independent Fed
Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan stated last week that, as President Trump seeks a new chair of the Federal Reserve, maintaining the banking system's independence is paramount.
Brigitte Bardot, 1960s cinema icon and animal rights activist, dies at 91
At the height of a cinema career that spanned some 28 films and three marriages, Brigitte Bardot came to symbolize a nation bursting out of bourgeois respectability.
1 dead after 2 helicopters crash in southern N.J.
One person was killed and another was critically injured after a helicopter collision
Train accident in southern Mexico leaves at least 13 dead and dozens injured
Officials said a train accident in southern Mexico killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, halting traffic along a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.
Gas line explosion shuts down major Southern California freeway
Several lanes of the 5 Freeway were closed and a shelter-in-place order was issued to residents in Castaic, California, after a gas line ruptured on Saturday.
Top news headlines of 2025 month-by-month
From political upheavals and gun violence, to the first American-born pope, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back at key events of a transformative year in U.S. history.