NASA on Wednesday announced that life may have evolved on at least three planets in a newly discovered solar system. This system is just 39 light years from Earth and have no less than seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting a cool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1.

Sending an antibiotic-resistant superbug to a zero-gravity environment like the International Space Station (ISS) will help NASA better understand how superbugs mutate to become resistant to available antibiotics, an India-origin researcher has said.

Forget space shuttles and rockets, luxury car brand Bentley has now taken the help of NASA for purely promotional reasons.

In line with its shift in focus from low-Earth orbit to deep space missions, NASA has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies critical to extending human presence deeper into our solar system.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying about 2,500 kgs of experiments and supplies is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, NASA said.

A US-born NASA scientist of Indian-origin was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials and was not permitted to enter the country unless he unlocked his PIN-protected work phone.

Scientists have shortlisted three landing sites for NASA's Mars 2020 rover -- slated for launch in July 2020 aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Moore, who has worked for NASA as a researcher published a white paper which detailed a revolutionary new concept for electric flying cars.

"Despite their youth, these far-flung blazars host some of the most massive black holes known," said Roopesh Ojha, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA scientists in an unprecedented study have found that space travel may alter gene expression.