Engadget

NASA dominated space and social media in 2016

"We all have a thirst for wonder," American astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his sci-fi novel Contact. "It's a deeply human quality." And it's partly thanks to this "thirst" that NASA had the space game ...
Live Science

Heat Record: How NASA Knows 2016 Was the Hottest Year

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The year 2016 was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and ...
New Atlas

NASA confirms 2016 was the hottest year on record

Another year, another broken temperature record. As early data predicted, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have now reported that globally, 2016 was the warmest year ...
CNN

NASA launches spacecraft to intercept asteroid

NASA on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-REx to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and – in a US space ...
The Verge

Why NASA’s Juno mission could last a lot longer than it was supposed to

NASA is preparing for Juno to stick around Jupiter a lot longer than it had originally planned. The probe — which has been orbiting the gas giant since July — is going to stay in its 53-day orbit ...
Wired

Nasa's 2016 budget would make it illegal not to land on Europa

Nasa's plans to send humans back to the Moon and possibly even further have received a huge boost after the US Congress decided to fund the space agency with an "extraordinary" budget for 2016. But ...
TechCrunch

2016 is the new hottest year on record – how NASA takes the planet’s temperature

NASA announced on Wednesday that in 2016, Earth experienced the hottest surface temperatures in modern history. Separate, independent analysis at NOAA provided the same conclusion. This makes the ...
GeekWire

How cloud computing boosts NASA’s quest to explore the final frontier

An open-source cloud computing project, known as OpenStack, was developed by NASA and Rackspace Inc. to standardize the data on NASA websites. (NASA Photo) When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the ...
Ars Technica

NASA realizes SLS and Orion are too expensive, opens door to competitors

With a new presidential administration promising to review its human spaceflight activities, NASA on Thursday continued to signal a willingness to consider alternatives to its exploration systems—the ...
Science Daily

2016 warmest year on record globally, NASA and NOAA data show

Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and NOAA. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new ...
The Verge

Trump’s NASA looks good for human space exploration and terrible for Earth science

Update November 23rd 2:30PM ET: When this story was originally reported on November 9th, Walker thought he might be on the NASA transition team. He has since told The Verge that he won’t be a team ...