NASA News

The astronauts and cosmonauts up on the International Space Station are in for a treat on birthdays and other special dates during their stay on the ISS in the future. NASA is ordering in French cuisine.

Two teams of NASA scientists have discovered faint traces of water signatures in the atmospheres of five hot Jupiters while scanning the skies through the Hubble Space Telescope. The five exoplanets orbit stars located in the neighborhood of our galaxy.

Sydney - In a first, China’s “Jade Rabbit” moon rover has left for a historic mission to the Moon. It’s the first physical landing by China, and a Chinese moon mission is very much in the program for the near future.

NASA announced that it will grow plants on the moon by 2015. The project is designed to further humanity's chances of colonizing space.

Cape Canaveral - Nasa's Maven mission launched Monday at 1:28 p.m. from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is on its way to Mars. If the $671 million mission stays on track, the orbiter will have a 10-month trip to the Red Planet.

Moscow - Two Russian cosmonauts have taken the torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics on a spacewalk as part of the Olympic torch relay. This is the first time any Olympic torch has been on a spacewalk.

Pasadena - Atmospheric rivers are the bridge between climate and West Coast snow, reports a joint study between NASA and UCLA. Scientists will be able to predict major winter storms hitting the West Coast mountains, leading to flooding and heavy spring runoffs.

It's been described as looking like a "rotating lawn sprinkler" and "definitely freakish," but there's one thing NASA scientists agree on concerning a newly-discovered asteroid — they're not quite sure how it exists.

NASA has released an image of Proxima Centauri taken with the joint NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope showing the closest star to our solar system (apart from the Sun) shining brightly.

East Kilbride - Examination of a meteorite that’s believed to have fallen to Earth around 3,000 years ago has provided clues as to how Mars lost its atmosphere, previously rich in carbon dioxide (CO2).