Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover—a ...

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

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RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has ...

Bill Nelson has stepped down as NASA administrator, ending a half-century of public service. Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer ...

As the Trump administration returns to power, NASA faces a crossroads that could redefine its mission for decades to come. As the new Trump administration takes the reins in the White House ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... galaxy that may have interacted with Andromeda in the past. Computer simulations suggest that when a close encounter with ...

But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back ... surface and will begin testing the onboard computer's ability to withstand radiation while in ...

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.