Some social media users are sharing a YouTube video that claims NASA halted ocean exploration efforts in 1978. The video features tranquil scenes of swimming sharks, fish and manta rays. A narrator ...

In 1978, a then-state-of-the-art spacecraft was launched by NASA and the European Space Agency and tasked to study the solar wind -- a stream of plasma and other particles released from the sun that ...

When you look back on the long history of crewed spaceflight, one group stands out for its radical challenge to the conventional wisdom of who could become an astronaut. NASA’s astronaut class of 1978 ...

Despite capturing the hearts and minds of geeks everywhere (as well as endorsements from astrophysicist and national treasure Neil deGrasse Tyson), NASA is poor. That means it doesn't have the cash to ...

NASA found something, not looking for new discoveries, but rather data from 1978. Space exploration has a long history of collecting more data than scientists can study at once. Missions return with ...