There’s no denying that NASA had an exciting 2014. While some of the organization’s most memorable achievements involved them bringing humankind much closer on the journey to Mars, those weren’t the only amazing accomplishments to happen in space ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREENBELT, Md — NASA is used to gaining worldwide attention from its accomplishments in space.

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A NASA-led study of a 2014 magnitude-5.1 earthquake centered in La Habra revealed that the temblor deformed the Earth’s crust across a wider swath of the northern Los Angeles Basin and northern Orange County than was expected and strain remains in deeper ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At the moment, even getting off the ground would be progress: since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has been left without any domestic capability to ...

The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now ...