The Latest Breaking News from NASA

This week Omega commemorates the historic Moon landing in July 1969 with a new portrait of Buzz Aldrin wearing the Speedmaster Professional 321.

LOS ANGELES — Recent satellite images from NASA show the dramatic water loss that has occurred over the last 22 years at drought-stricken Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir and a lifeline for California, neighboring states and Mexico.

Astronomers anticipated that micrometeoroids would hit the telescope, but the damage caused so far was unexpected

The telescope’s development process cost $10 billion over 17 years.

NASA is shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon rocket

NASA has used the anniversary of the July 20, 1969 moonwalk to announce tentative launch dates for the first major stage of a mission designed to put human boots on the Moon again.

Both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wanted to be the first man to set foot on the Moon, and they competed with each other for the accolade, as historian Jim Donovan wrote in his book Shoot For The Moon.

Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth

Researchers have taken a tiny piece of soil from the city of Prosser, in Washington state to dispatch it with some of its “inhabitants” to space, which actually happened last week. The soil and its inhabitants of bacteria blasted off into space from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.…